PRINCETON, NJ Restaurant Dining Guide Announcement

COUNT ON YOUTH - 24 hour Count of Homeless Youth Novemebr 12

The Trenton/Mercer Continuum of Care, in collaboration with the New Jersey Division of Children and Families and the Mercer County Human Service Advisory Council, will be conducting its first ever targeted count of youth homelessness on November 12, 2014.  This event entitled  COUNT ON YOUTH  will be a 24 hour count of homeless youth.

Aggressive outreach efforts lead by teams of community based street outreach providers and members of local Youth Advisory Boards will conduct surveys aimed at helping us get a better understanding of the patterns and characteristics of youth homelessness in our community.

We know this is a difficult population to engage especially since many homeless youth do not identify themselves as being homeless.   Rather than a homeless survey, we will be using a specially designed  "Housing Survey" for this count. We will be conducting a training for volunteers on October 29th, 2014 from 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm at Catholic Charities (132 North Warren Street, Trenton, NJ).  Food and beverages will be provided.  

Please help our efforts by sending two volunteers from your organization to attend this training and to be available on November 12th, 2014 to conduct the count.    Please RSVP for the October 29th training to Brisoldi@mercercounty.org.    

More information to follow, but please feel free to contact Joanne Locke (jlocke@merceralliance.org) if you have any questions.