On Wednesday, May 13th the City of Yellowknife’s Community Advisory Board on Homelessness conducted its first-ever Point-in-Time Homeless Count.

The 2015 Point-in-Time Count—a significant step towards better understanding homelessness in Yellowknife—yielded valuable information about the minimum number of individuals experiencing homelessness in the community.

In addition to important data on homelessness, the 2015 PiT Count allowed Yellowknife, as a community, to improve its capacity to conduct PiT Counts. The learning from the 2015 Count will inform future counts led by the City of Yellowknife.