{"id":130423,"date":"2026-01-12T17:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130423\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:19:38","slug":"point-in-time-count-helps-assess-the-needs-of-homeless-in-kern-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130423\/","title":{"rendered":"Point in Time Count helps assess the needs of homeless in Kern County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Each year, The Bakersfield Kern Regional Homeless Collaborative conducts the Point in Time Count.<\/p>\n<p>The Point in time Count is a one day federally required effort to understand homelessness in Kern County.<\/p>\n<p>The data collected directly impacts how much funding our community receives for housing, outreach and support services.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Morena, Director of Housing and Supportive Services for Community Action Partnership of Kern, joined ARC Bakersfield to share more details.<\/p>\n<p>Morena noted the important role volunteers play in making sure the count can be done accurately and explained the training they undergo to help serve the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Each year, The Bakersfield Kern Regional Homeless Collaborative conducts the Point in Time Count.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-130423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}