McLean and neighboring counties show renewed support — at unprecedented levels — for annual homeless headcount
On the coldest night each year, volunteers across the United States brave frigid temperatures in search of people living in them. Known as the Point in Time [PIT] count, it’s both a federal data collection opportunity on homelessness and a way to help a community’s often most vulnerable members.
Liam Wheeler is coordinating this year's count for 11 counties in Central Illinois, including McLean. He noted that this marks the first year all counties within the Central Illinois Continuum of Care [CICoC] are participating.
“We are going to walk the streets, and we are trying to find individuals who [are] struggling with homelessness, and asking them if they're willing to participate in sharing their demographic data,” said Wheeler, also the area’s CoC coordinator through the McLean County Center for Human Services [MCCHS], which leads the CICoC.