TYLER — The local homeless coalition known as Gateway to Hope joins the Texas Homeless Network, along with other local agencies and interested parties, in conducting a Homeless Survey Thursday in a continuing effort to address the homelessness issues facing community members in Smith County and throughout the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be carrying out this survey and count on the same day as other agencies all over Texas,\u201d said Christina Fulsom, Gateway to Hope Steering Committee member. \u201cThe survey will result in a comprehensive report on the number of homeless persons \u2013 sheltered and unsheltered \u2013 in our community; demographics, reasons for becoming and remaining homeless, educational attainment, employment status, health care needs, and other factors will be collected. We have to truly understand the scope of the problem in order to improve our ability to plan and implement effective housing and service programs. The same survey was conducted in January of 2010 – 306 homeless individuals, 68 of them children, were identified in Tyler, there were many others we did not find that night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fulsom says the coalition needs at least 50 volunteers to make this a successful study. \u201cAnyone who shares our commitment to helping the homeless of Smith County is encouraged to volunteer. We will provide you with training on the night of the survey. Every team will be led by an experienced team leader.” Volunteers will meet at 3 p.m. on Thursday. After a brief training and a light meal, volunteer teams will disperse throughout the County and count and survey individuals living on the street and in shelters from 5-7:30 pm.\u201d To register to volunteer, you can visit the PATH website at http:\/\/www.pathhelps.org<\/a> or call Chanta Willis at 903.597.4044 x112.<\/p>\n Fulsom added, \u201cIt is also very important that homeless individuals know we are coming out to visit them that night. Those meeting HUD\u2019s definition of homeless are encouraged to come to the following Soup Kitchens: Good Samaritan, Loaves and Fishes, and The Salvation Army. Those staying in shelters will be surveyed in the shelter. Shelters participating include the Salvation Army and the East Texas Crisis Center.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TYLER — The local homeless coalition known as Gateway to Hope joins the Texas Homeless Network, along with other local agencies and interested parties, in conducting a Homeless Survey Thursday in a continuing effort to address the homelessness issues facing community members in Smith County and throughout the state. \u201cWe will be carrying out this … Continue reading Smith County Point in Time Homeless Survey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 16:08:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67524"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67765,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67524\/revisions\/67765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}