 The West Care Perry Client Shelter is preparing to participate in the 2024 K-Count. This statewide census is meant to gather accurate numbers on unhoused individuals in every county to better understand the need for housing resources. Once the numbers are in, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development can determine how much federal funding is needed. What we do is we send out crew of outreach, which we have several churches that are participating. Several of the city police have told us that they would help. We try to call on firefighters, police, anybody that would see clients out in the weather. And we give them a form and they fill it out. So every person that we count, they do a statewide count of that. It's called K-Count for Kentucky. And that's how funding comes in. So the Kentucky Housing Corporation is the one that does the funding. They deviate the funding. And that's how you get funding. You can apply for it by how many of our unhoused people you have in your community. Appalachian wireless just can't stop themselves. Get the iPhone 13 128 gig for a penny with a two-year contract on the Mix and Match or Unlimited Plan. New or renewed line. While supplies last. One penny for an iPhone 13. We are you. We are. Appalachian wireless. West Care wishes to bring more attention to the homeless situation in the area. The goal is to gain more funding for homeless help programs. And last year, I'm pretty sure that R said that we only had three. And I can count three names off the top of my head that I know are unhoused right now. You know, I want that number to go up just because I want to be able to prove that we do have unhoused people and we do need the funding. Because a lot of the funding goes to lexing to the Louisville. They're bigger cities so they have a lot more unhoused people. And they need the funding, but we also need it too. So I want to make sure we get an accurate count this year because we didn't get one last year. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Column.