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Help House The Homeless

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Homelessness providers plan the challenge.

City organizations are joining forces on an ambitious effort to house 75 percent of New Haven’s chronically homeless — and they need help.

The ambitious effort is known as the 100-day challenge. A host of city social services agencies have signed on to participate in the three-month push to house about 107 chronically homeless people, people who have often been homeless for years.

A central component of the challenge is identifying who among the city’s homeless should be housed first. Between May 12 and 16, staff and volunteers will be surveying homeless people to assess their vulnerability and prioritize them for available housing.

The event is called Registry Week, and organizers are looking for volunteers to help out. The United Way, one of the organizers, sent in this info:

Join us as a volunteer for the Greater New Haven Region Registry Week, May 12 – 16, 2014. This will be a community effort to go into the community to interview individuals experiencing homelessness in our region in order to better understand their health and housing needs. Registry Week includes a walking canvass May 12 ‑14th (4 — 8 a.m.) and a data entry project on May 15 – 16th (9 a.m. — 4 p.m.). T‑shirts and training will be provided.

All Registry walking canvass volunteers must attend training. In-person training will be held on either May 5, 7, 9 (from 6 to 8 p.m.) or May 10 (from 9 to 11 a.m.) at Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, 319 Peck Street in New Haven.

Registry walking canvass volunteers who are unable to attend the in-person training are encouraged to participate in the full 1 hour Registry Week training webinar on Mon., May 5th or Wed. May 7th from 5 – 6 pm. To participate in the webinar go here 10 minutes prior to the webinar start time.

For more information or to sign-up, click here or contact Jan McCray at [email protected] or (203) 691‑4216.

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