30 communities across Canada, including Thompson, will be completing a homeless count this year.

The Point-in-Time Count provides communities with information about their homeless population. The Government of Canada is supporting the counts being done across the country, making it the first Canadian coordinated homeless count.

Committee member Matthew Boscariol says there are many benefits to the count:

"If we’re looking to build cities across Canada and here specifically in Thomson, it’s more of a understanding of how does this data fluctuates overtime. Where do we need to focus more of our financial, our social, our environmental resources, into helping out this specific cohort in Thompson".

The Thompson Community Advisory Board on Homelessness is looking for volunteers for the February 23rd and 24th count.

Last year’s count revealed 126 people in Thompson identify themselves as homeless.