Austin’s 100 Homes Campaign Registry Week took place from November 7 – 9, 2011. Over three mornings of intensive outreach more than 80 volunteers took to the city’s streets, homeless shelters, hospitals, and parks to find homeless individuals and gather information from them using a Vulnerability Index survey. The Vulnerability Index survey asks people to self-report on their histories of housing and homelessness, their state of health, where they usually sleep, what support they are able to access and who they stay with. Every individual who was surveyed consented and did not have to answer questions they did not want to. A photo was also taken (also with consent) to ensure people can be easily identified in the future as part of the effort to prioritize housing and services for the most vulnerable. The data from the Vulnerability Index survey was entered by volunteers into a database that generates reports identifying the individual’s medical vulnerabilities and barriers to housing. Volunteers completed 289 surveys.  Check out Registry Week in the news in our Media Resource Center!