Homeless Students
Homeless students are students who:
- Share housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship or a similar reason;
- Live in motels, hotels, camping grounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
- Live in emergency or transitional shelters;
- Abandoned in hospitals;
- Awaiting foster care placement;
- Have nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation;
- Live in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations.
Homeless students are entitled to immediate school enrollment, access to the federal school lunch program and to continue in their original school when their housing status changes to homeless during the course of a school year. Students who are enrolled in surrounding school districts but are found to be homeless in Martin County can be assisted with transportation to their home school.
In addition, the Title I, Part A program can provide homeless students items that are not normally provided by the school or district. The items provided are considered necessary but not typically provided. These include items such as; backpacks, school supplies, calculators, school uniforms and/or lab materials not provided by the school or district.
To access these and other support services available to homeless students please contact your school Guidance Counselor or Bill Connolly, Coordinator of Student Services/Homeless Student Liaison. The phone number is 772-219-1200, Extension 30421.
