Posted By Katie Hennessey on Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM click to enlarge Katie Hennessey Volunteers take part in San Antonio s 2019 Point-In-Time Count. Every January, volunteers from homeless organizations across the country comb their cities to tally their number homeless residents. It s called a Point-In-Time Count, or PIT Count. Due to dangerous COVID-19 infection levels this year, many of those organizations including the San Antonio Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH) cancelled their PIT Counts of unsheltered individuals. A separate count of people in shelters, reported by local agencies, will take place as usual, however. Katie Vela, SARAH s executive director, said the cancellation of the unshelter
Every January, volunteers with homeless organizations across the nation take part in a Point-in-Time (PIT) count to understand how many homeless people are in shelters and encampments in communities.
Used to chaos - Young San Antonio homeless need extra help to become self-sufficient
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Suyapa Muñoz, from left, and Latonya Richard sit with Katie Vela, executive director of South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH), as they chat outside KGBTexas Communications in San Antonio on November 27, 2020. Muñoz and Richard are on SARAH’s Youth Action Board.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Isabella Cardenas, 22, texts with a friend after visiting her sister at a nearby motel near the corner of IH-35 and North Main Avenue, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Cardenas has been on the streets for a while and is now staying with friends in a tent under IH-37. San Antonio Regional Alliance for the Homeless, (SARAH), is partnering with five agencies to help area homeless youth through an almost $5 million grant to provide various programs, such as rapid rehousing, transitional housing and mobile outreach.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-N
San Antonio organizations partner together, create programs to end youth homelessness
Different projects in the works could change the lives of hundreds of homeless youths in our community
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SAN ANTONIO – Several organizations across Bexar County are teaming up in hopes of ending youth homelessness.
“Although youth homelessness may not be as visible, it’s still a huge issue in our community,” said Katie Vela, executive director of the South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless, also known as SARAH.
SARAH and recently received a $6.8 million grant to support its mission.
“The funding is to create a local system that prevents and ends homelessness,” Vela said.