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Eligibility Guidelines

Who qualifies as homeless?

Homeless people are those who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.  This includes children and youth who are:

  • Sharing housing ( doubled up) due to loss of housing or economic hardship.
  • Living in motels, hotels, dilapidated trailers, or camp grounds due to lack of alternative adequate housing.
  • Living in emergency or transitional housing.
  • Abandoned in hospitals.
  • Having a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, regular sleeping accommodations.
  • Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations.
  • Migratory students meeting the descriptions above


Families, with school aged children, experiencing homelessness have the right to....

  • Attend school.
  • Stay at the school they attended before becoming homeless (within reason) if the parent/guardian so choose.
  • Transportation services to and from school of origin (dependent on situation.)
  • Participate in school programs and activities and receive the same school services that are offered to other children.
  • Title 1 Services.
  • Free/reduced meals.
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