Blog: Communities

We've got good news- there's one less person sleeping on the streets in Los Angeles!

Earlier this year, the Campaign hired two Americorps volunteers to hit the pavement in Skid Row. Recently, they helped Sharon Crosby move off the streets and into permanent housing after a lifetime of homelessness.

NeNe, as Crosby is affectionately called, had spent most of her life bouncing around between various temporary accommodations. She had spent the last ten years living on the streets.

Over the last three days, Louisiana became the first state to implement the Vulnerability Index at the state level through a statewide Registry Week. 

This month, Louisiana will become the first Campaign community to implement the Vulnerability Index statewide.

By organizing hundreds of volunteers across the state, Randy Nichols and the Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless hope to survey homeless residents at frequent gathering points to build the Campaign's first state-level registry.

Volunteers hit the streets of Albuquerque in droves early this week as the city launched its new initiative, Albuquerque Heading Home.

Over 100 volunteers, including the Mayor and his wife, combed area "hot spots" block by block on Monday, looking for homeless residents and surveying them using the Campaign's Vulnerability Index. Monday night, more volunteers surveyed local shelters to make sure no one would be left out of the surveying process.