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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The number from past year's Street and Shelter Point-in-Time number came successful astatine astir 4,300 unhoused individuals crossed Fresno and Madera combined.
But this year, the Fresno Madera Continuum of Care is hoping to larn much astir the radical who marque up that population.
More than 300 high-visibility vests volition instrumentality to the streets of Fresno implicit the adjacent 2 days, moving to radiance a airy connected homelessness successful Fresno.
"This is simply a truly bully turnout, and it tells america that radical care," said seat Laura Moreno.
Tuesday marked the archetypal nighttime of the count.
Local leaders were amongst the galore taking portion successful the yearly mission.
It's an effort to measure homelessness successful Fresno and Madera.
The information is past utilized to physique a program designed to code the needs of the area's population.
"We request the flexibility to say, present successful the Fresno Madera region, this is what is going to assistance our families, and that is captious to what we do," Moreno said.
Coming disconnected a twelvemonth that saw respective shelters adjacent their doors owed to a deficiency of funding, Moreno says the Continuum of Care is taking a much broad attack to their count.
Unhoused individuals volition beryllium asked to implicit a tiny survey.
"Not lone volition we person a number of radical that are experiencing homelessness, we're besides going to get that accusation from them astir however they got here, what happened that caused this concern successful their life," Moreno said.
Once volunteers were checked in, it was clip to deed the road.
Our squad tagged on with a radical assigned to Downtown Fresno.
Volunteers are trained to code radical safely and respectfully.
"These are people, these are radical successful our community, they're our friends, they're our neighbors, and they merit dignity," said unpaid Zack Darrah.
Our pb volunteer, Leticia Martinez, has been with the Poverello House for 19 years.
She tells america she's driven by being the helping hand, offered acold excessively rarely.
'What's the archetypal happening that comes to your caput arsenic you locomotion away," we asked.
"The archetypal happening that comes to caput erstwhile we prosecute with individuals, is respecting their abstraction and the look connected their face," Martinez replied.
Once the number is finished, the Continuum of Care volition compile those numbers and contiguous them to the Department of Housing and Development, successful hopes of gathering programs amended suited to the Central Valley.
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