Answer the following questions to learn whether you qualify as “homeless.” If so, you have additional educational rights.
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Are you staying in another person’s housing, such as a friend’s or relative’s?
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Are you staying in another person’s housing because of economic hardship or loss of housing?
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Are you staying in a motel, hotel, trailer park, or camping ground?
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Are you staying in a motel, hotel, trailer park, or camping ground because you do not have other adequate housing?
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Are you living in an emergency shelter or transitional shelter, such as a youth shelter, family shelter, domestic violence shelter, or transitional living program?
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Have you been abandoned in a hospital?
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Are you staying in a private or public place not designed for or usually used for sleeping?
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Are you living in a car, park, public space, abandoned building, bus or train station, or camping ground?
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Are you living in “substandard housing?”
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Are you staying in a nighttime residence that is “fixed?”
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Are you staying in a nighttime residence that is “regular?”
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Are you staying in a nighttime residence that is “adequate?”
YOUR SITUATION
You may be considered “homeless” and would have more educational rights.
Learn more about your rights here. If you think your rights have been violated, contact us.
Click the continue button to answer questions to decide if you also qualify as “unaccompanied.”
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Who do you live with?
YOUR SITUATION
You may be considered an “unaccompanied youth” and would have more educational rights. Learn more about your rights here.
If you think your rights have been violated, contact us.
YOUR SITUATION
If you are not experiencing homelessness or are living with a parent or guardian, you may not be considered an “unaccompanied youth.” To be sure, contact your school district’s liaison for students experiencing homelessness. Learn more about your liaison here.
However, based on your previous answers, you may be considered “homeless” and would have more educational rights. Learn more about your rights here.
If you think your rights have been violated, contact us.
YOUR SITUATION
If you did not fit into any of the examples or definitions discussed previously, you may not be considered homeless. To be sure, contact your school district’s liaison for students experiencing homelessness. Learn more about your liaison here.
