1) Danielle Noble, MSW, Sr. Administrative Analyst, Homeless Services City of Santa Monica,  leads a training class for volunteers on Saturday, January 24, 2009, at the Santa Monica Main Library in preparation for the 2009 Santa Monica Homeless Count. 2) Santa Monica Police Sergeant Joaquin Vega and Volunteer Rebecca James discuss the assigned zone chart at the deployment station on Tuesday, January 27, 2009, during the 2009 Santa Monica Homeless Count. 200 plus volunteers in teams of 2-3 people surveyed Santa Monica's streets and counted homeless individuals on Tuesday night. Security was provided and all volunteers received training. 3,4,5) Volunteers Lyle Randles, 60, a Santa Monica Police Chaplain, and Patty Loggins, 48, Santa Monica Human Service Administrator, walk through downtown counting homeless people on Tuesday at around midnight. 6) Danielle Noble, MSW, Sr. Administrative Analyst, Homeless Services City of Santa Monica, (left) tallies up data from the volunteers city-wide count. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) is conducting its biennial county-wide count of homeless people on the streets on any given night. This year, for the first time, the City of Santa Monica is expanding its involvement in this project and partnering with LAHSA to do a city-wide direct street count in all of Santa Monica’s census tracts. A city-wide direct street count will give us as accurate a count as possible. The data from the count will have many uses including helping us define Santa Monica’s fair share, directing resources, and shaping our innovative and compassionate programs that engage homeless people in services, assist them to become stable and move them off the streets and into appropriate housing.

Josh Ojeda, 21, (left) and Josh Hooks, 23, from West Coast Cares, scout the Third Street Promenade looking for homeless to help on Thursday, October 6, 2008. WCC provides homeless with the life-coaching, resources and information they need to breakthrough barriers and to get them off the streets by linking them to family, friends and services in their places of origin. WCC provides a free one-way bus pass for the homeless to reunite them with their family and friends anywhere in the nation.

1) Michael Crutcher, 58, eats turkey with all the trimmings during St. Monica's Catholic Church  28th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the Needy on Wednesday, November 21, 2007.  2) St. Monica's student, Crystal Sandoval, 14, volunteers during the Thanksgiving Eve dinner on Wednesday. 3,4) More than 800 guests enjoyed a free traditional Thanksgiving  dinner at St. Monica's Church on Wednesday.

Two travelers  lean against each other while napping in the sun at Bay Street and Ocean Ave on Friday 12, 2007.

A  man takes a nap along Santa Monica beach on Thursday, October 19, 2006.

Two men  stay cool underneath the Pacific Coast Highway, inside of  the Chautauqua Bl. Tunnel, while drinking beer from a 40 ounce can  on Thursday June 15, 2006.