INTRODUCTION BY COOL AID SOCIETY
According to this survey more than 1,242 of our neighbours in the Capital Region are homeless or nearly homeless. This survey cost $100,000 (raised through a combination of tax dollars and charitable donations) used the services of 250 volunteers during a one-week survey, which recorded responses from 815 homeless and unstably housed individuals in the Capital Region.
The Capital Regional District has established a secretariat of CRD staff, which is mandated to form the Regional Homeless Task Force, which will review and update the Victoria Community Plan for Homelessness. The first recommendation made was: That the Planning & Protective Services Committee recommends to the Capital Regional Hospital District Board: 1. That $75,000 from the 2007 Section 20(3) budget is set aside as a contribution, along with funding from other agencies, toward the cost of producing the Regional Homeless Action Plan."
This survey was the 2nd survey in the past two years. On January 15, 2005 more than 150 community volunteers participated in a “rough count†of the homeless. The estimates of the number of absolute homeless from the rough count and from the use of the shelters was about 700 people. It should be noted that 47 children were dependent on someone who was homeless.
Contact information for Kathy Stinson, Executive Director for Cool Aid Society
Phone: (250) 383-1977
E-mail: kstinson@Coolaid.org
Contact Cool Aid
Mailing Address: The Victoria Cool Aid Society
#102-749 Pandora Ave.
Victoria, BC
V8W 1N9
Telephone: (250) 383-1977
Fax: (250) 383-1639
E-Mail the Society: society@coolaid.org
E-Mail the Board: board@coolaid.org
To Read in Full or Summary form and/or Download and Read the entire document goto: http://coolaid.org/
click on: Homeless Needs Survey
then click on: Newsroom
scroll down to:
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Cool Aid Society Executive Director, Kathy Stinson speaks about the Survey.
