The County of Riverside is Counting on You!
We need an army of volunteers to assist with conducting a thorough and accurate homeless count throughout the County.
Volunteers are needed from every community and from all walks of life including:
Municipal employees
Social Service providers
Colleges and Universities
Faith-based institutions
Community Service Clubs
Business and Neighborhood Associations
Board members and other volunteers with Non-profit agencies
Currently and formerly homeless individuals
Volunteers are needed before the day-of-the-count to:
help organize the count in your community
promote community awareness of the count
help identify locations where homeless people can be found
enlist other volunteers to help complete the count
Volunteers are needed on the day-of-the-count to:
participate on street-counter teams
help conduct the count at social service locations
to assist with phone calls and collecting count data
transporting count volunteers to assigned locations throughout the county
Street-counter volunteers will be organized into teams of two or three people made up of a currently or formerly homeless individual, a social service provider (including law enforcement and municipal employees) and a community volunteer. Each team will be dispatched to pre-determined street locations to conduct the count. All team members will be provided with an identifying bright-colored Everybody Counts t-shirt and items needed to conduct the enumeration.
Social Service location volunteers will include staff members and community volunteers who are assigned to conduct the count at pre-determined social service locations. Volunteers are also needed to assist at community-based and regional headquarters locations on the day of the count to help with answering phones, dispatching volunteers, collecting data reports, organizing supplies, etc.
If you would like to help, please click on the Volunteer Flyer link on this page and send us your information. For more information, please contact one of the Census Project Team members below:
Don Smith, Project Manager, 909/596-5790, dsmith@iurd.org
Clarence Pulliam, Western County Coordinator, 909/596-2919, cpulliam@iurd.org
Jack Garrett, Eastern County Coordinator, 909/596-5144, jgarrett@iurd.org
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