More than 45 Lethbridge teams take part in province-wide homeless count
LETHBRIDGE – Numbers won’t be available until November, however, Lethbridge was one of the seven provincial cities that took part Wednesday in the Alberta’s second province-wide Point-in-Time Count of homelessness.
It’s part of a 10-year plan to end homelessness across the province. The other cities taking part were the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Grand Prairie, Edmonton, Red Deer, Medicine Hat, and Calgary.
About 150 volunteers were divided into more than 45 teams that fanned out across the city for the count. They included community members, business people, representatives from the Lethbridge Police Service, non-profit agency outreach teams, the University of Lethbridge, and Lethbridge College.
The information gathered by the teams will be compiled by an independent consultant, with preliminary numbers released next month and a province-wide report will be provided to the government in 2017.