Student Support Programs

Any child or youth who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence including those who: 

• are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship;
• are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; 
• are living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals;
• have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
• are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and 
• Those identified by the Migrant Education Program (as defined in section 1309 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) who qualify as homeless because the children are living in circumstances described in the bullet points above