For the past week, the East County Chamber of Commerce has been giving out wristbands to local homeless shelters and first responders. Their goal is to better connect homeless people to services and resources.
People can text "ConnectEC" to 77453, which then gives them options for help covering basic needs such as health and shelter. The idea is to refer them to local resources, like the Crisis House in El Cajon.
The East County Chamber of Commerce said they worked with people who are homeless to develop the new information system.
“Not everybody out there on the streets has smartphones," Lund said. "If you don’t have a smartphone it’s kind of hard to navigate a website. So we think that by having a text-based app it’s going to open it up for a lot of other people.”
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