afternoon, everyone. I appreciate this opportunity that you've given me to present. I promise I won't be for you be before you long. It's gonna be hard because I'm long winded, but I'll do my best. My name is Candice Morgan, and I recently transitioned over to the city of Detroit. Some people may not know that I've made that transition, but that is where I am in the HRD Department. Today I'm going to be talking to you about the unsheltered Housing Census. We're calling it duck. So we're going to run through this presentation really, really quickly so that we could have a couple of minutes for announcements. Chelsea, if you can move forward for me, on January the 29th the city of Detroit will be conducting the Detroit unsheltered homeless census, duck count of people who are homeless and unsheltered in our community. The census is important for a variety of reasons, shelter capacity planning, understanding community needs, advocating for additional resources, new and revised policies, etc. Duck is not the pit. Let me say it again. Duck is not the pit. The pit will take place as mandated by HUD and January of 2026 now I stop right here just to give you a little more information. Mayor Duggan decided that in order for us to continue to make all of the advancements that we've been able to made it make in the homelessness arena, that we needed numbers. We needed updated numbers as continuously as we can get them. And with the pit, we only get it every other year. So he has asked us to try to have a count this year, which is the off year from the pit. So this is the first year that we've had an off count from the pit I think we had one years ago, but the first one is that Detroit is spearheading now. I want to say again, before we move forward, the pit has been conducted for many, many, many years by the COC and the enhanced homosexual network of Detroit. It could not have been possible for me to even move this forward, as far as it has come. Without their guidance, they have been instrumental in helping us move this forward. So today I'm going to kind of walk through very swiftly what we've been able to do thus far so that we can carry out the unsheltered homeless count and on January the 29th now there are going to be a lot of similarities, only because Hannah has done it so great. Why recreate the wheel? So we are trying to stick as close to possible to the methodology that they have actually perfected over the years so we can move forward. There are three areas that we're going to be concentrating in preparation activities, which basically we've been doing now for the last month or so. But it's going to conclude on Monday, January the 27th and then we have the unsheltered street census. Now that, of course, is the canvassing the night that we go out in Canvas our community. And our community is Detroit, chemtram and Highland Park, and then, of course, there are next day interviews. Those are going to happen on Thursday, january 30. Now this is very similar to what we're used to, what our community is used to again, we did not stray too far from what we know. Our next slide will go into exactly what preparation activities are now. Our preparation activities, of course, are all the planning that we've done up until this point. But on the 27th which is two days before the actual canvas thing, the census, we're going to be meeting to kind of put together all of the resources that we've been able to secure our bags, our hand warmers, our feet warmers, our any of the snacks, the lunches, whatever we have, we're not lunches. We're not going to put them together today, currently, but everything else we'll be putting together, and we're going to be doing that at COP. Cops has agreed to allow us to use their community space to meet. They have a parking community, gated parking. I'm sorry that we'll be able to take advantage of as well as open space restrooms and a kitchen area. So we will be using their facility. Be for our command center. The next area of concentrating will be the actual canvassing. That's the next slide. That's when we're actually going to do the census. And that's going to be on that following Wednesday. And we're asking people to register their agency to help participate. I want to stop here and say, in years past, if you are part of the COC and you received HUD funding as a community, we were asked to participate, and we did. And even though this is an off year, we are we are asking humbly for as much as the same participation, or a level of participation as we've been able to get doing our HUD counts so you can register more than one team, and we're asking that. And last year, I think they had up to 25 to 25 teams. So we're going to be really looking for people to sign up teams. You can have more than one team per agency. You don't even have to belong to an agency to have a team. We just want you to have a team. So after we get all the registration information, and I will say that, we'll send all of this out to you, so you will have the registration link after this meeting to sign up for any area that you would like to help and participate in. If you like a certain areas say you just love the east side. We want, we want to try to give you what you are comfortable with that, if at all possible. On the day of the event, we are going to have people sign up on consent forms and all those type of liability things. We'll have you do that before anyone does any work, we'll make sure that we're all covered. So please, when you see that registration, hit your email. Take a look at it for us, and hopefully you will sign up. The next part of a duck will be the next day canvassing. So the next day interviews, I'm sorry that's going to take place the day after the actual canvas, actually hours after so hopefully we'll be able to get some sleep. We're going to have teams, we say no less than two, but you know, if you have a team of three, that's fine as well. So we're going to be visiting known places that we know our unsheltered population attends. So we want to make sure that we're counting everyone, even if we miss someone the night before, we may be able to catch them the next day, doing our next day interviews. Again, we're going to send out the information, and hopefully you will be able to sign up. We appreciate that, and I think I'm almost all done the next slide, please. So other opportunities. One of the things the Homeless Action Network has been absolutely awesome in doing, because they've been doing it so long as they've been great at creating partnerships and donations and things of that nature. Because this is a new endeavor for us. We are asking for if you would like to donate, gloves, hats, whatever. We do want incentives, which is a big part, you know, of what we're trying to do. And we're asking for incentives or gift cards in the amount of $5 and if you are interested in doing that, I would like you to contact me directly, and we can make some we can make some arrangements if you're interested in just attending the planning meeting and working alongside of us that is open to you as well. Just let me know, and I will definitely send you the link so that you can join. So actually, that's really me getting through all of what I had rehearsed to say to you today, and I want to have a couple of minutes to thank you again for allowing us to do this and ask if anyone has any questions. So if you can ask them at this time, the last slide please is simply a slide with my contact information on whereas you can reach me at any time and I will facilitate your questions. You Yes, I don't see any hands. That's a wonderful, wonderful thing. But again, I hope that I hear from some of you, and the links will go out on Lydia.