Common Ground Homeless Survey
Monday Feb. 28, 2011 4 a.m. volunteers fill the Louise Lowry-Davis Center before heading out for the Common Ground homeless survey
Feb. 28, 2011 at 4 a.m. volunteers gather at the Louise Lowry Davis Recreation Center for the first day of a three day project to survey the homeless population of Santa Barbara in hopes of obtaining information such as numbers, health conditions, and peoples place of origin.
Feb. 28, 2011 Jeff Shaffer talks with volunteers about to go out.
Rob Fredericks (left) with the Housing Authority and Nick Ferrara guide volunteers about to go out.
Feb. 28, 2011 a little after 4 a.m. Mayor Helene Schneider (center) and council member Grant House (left) head out with their group to do the Common Ground homeless survey
Feb. 28, 2011 small groups organize before heading out to do the survey
Feb. 28, 2011 Common Ground homeless survey
City Councilmember Randy Rouse
Feb. 28, 2011 small groups organize before heading out to do the survey
Volunteers hang a sheet to tally some basic numbers as the surveys return Feb. 28, 2011.
Volunteer surveyors on the lower Eastside Feb. 28, 2011
Dawn Monday morning Feb 28, 2011
Jennifer Ferraez (2nd from right) fills out a Common Ground survey
Jerry fills out the survey for volunteer Lisa Bidlow
Jerry fills out the survey for volunteer Lisa Bidlow
After taking the survey Sticks talks with David “Hopper” Hopkins
Outreach worker Jennifer Ferraez leads the way looking for encampments.
Outreach worker Jennifer Ferraez leads the way looking for encampments.
“Gator” has already done the survey but well known so takes a few minutes to catch up with David, Jennifer, and Lisa.
“Gator” has already done the survey but well known so takes a few minutes to catch up with David, Jennifer, and Lisa.
“Gator”
Gator makes his way to a cup of coffee and heard later to say “I got coffee. I had a choice and I got coffee.”
L to R David Hopkins, Jennifer Ferraez, & Lisa Bidlow
David Hopkins (left) interviews people at Cabrillo Park for the Common Ground homeless survey
Published on March 2, 2011
