Homeless Services

Congress passed the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act in 1987 to help support the needs of homeless youth in schools.  Under this guidance, homeless is defined as any child or youth without a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.  This includes students in the following situations:

• Living with a friend, relative, or someone else because they lost their home or their family is having temporary financial problems.
• Staying in a motel, hotel, trailer park, or campground because they have nowhere else to go.
• Living in a shelter, including emergency or transitional shelters, domestic violence shelters, and runaway and homeless youth shelters.
• Staying in substandard housing.
• Living in places not ordinarily used for sleeping including cars, parks, public places, abandoned buildings, or bus or train stations.
• Awaiting foster care placement.
• Abandoned in a hospital.

If you need assistance, please contact our Homeless Liaison, Michele Baur, at 586.510.2040.