PIT - HOME 4 HOPE

The Point In Time Count is an unduplicated count on a single night of the people in a community who are experiencing homelessness that includes both sheltered and unsheltered populations and provides a snapshot of homelessness in the entire United States.

Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) obtains the Point In Time (PIT) Count data including a wide range of characteristics of the homeless population such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, veteran status, and disability status from every Continuum of Care (CoC) in Oregon.

Community Action Program of East Central Oregon (CAPECO) is in Oregon's Balance of the State CoC and organizes the PIT Count for Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla and Wheeler counties.

Purpose of Counting Homeless in Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla & Wheeler counties:

We routinely collect information on unsheltered and sheltered homeless people in order to learn:

How many homeless people do or do not use shelters;
Where in the community they live;
How many are chronically homeless;
What they need and will accept to end their homelessness; and
How to intervene with newly homeless people to prevent chronic homelessness.

Information about unsheltered and sheltered homeless people is used for:

Raising public awareness about the issue of homelessness;
Accurately measuring and identifying the needs of populations that are the hardest to serve (chronically homeless);
Demonstrating a need for resources in this area;
Measuring performance in eliminating homelessness, particularly chronic homelessness; and
Service planning.