Our current pledge: Edgerton Outreach Helps Edgerton Community Outreach, Inc. (ECO) has provided housing assistance for low income people since 2002. In 2005, ECO purchased our Lawton Street Home, which houses two formally homeless individuals/families while they work with ECO staff on goals which help them achieve a greater level of self-sufficiency. Edgerton Community Outreach’s supportive housing portfolio has added four additional units since 2010 and currently oversees six rental units. A significant barrier to individuals finding self-sufficiency is homelessness. People served in ECO’s housing programs are very successful in keeping and maintaining their housing due to the guidance of Edgerton Outreach coaching staff. During the 17 years, ECO has operated its Transitional Living Program, a place to call home has enabled participants to succeed through their hard work. The Challenge In January and July, homeless service providers complete an annual street count to identify homeless persons in our communities. While it is only a snapshot of one night, it gives a telling picture of what is occurring in our communities. In January of last year, the street count identified 2420 homeless people that were part of a household with at least one child. Of these people, 168 were veterans. These numbers are frightening as it only counts those we can identify and does not account for those households that are doubled up or that were not identified.