Youth In Transition (YIT)

The Youth in Transition program serves families experiencing homelessness by seeking to remove barriers to enrollment, attendance, transportation, and academic success. The McKinney-Vento Act defines homeless children and youth as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. This definition also includes:

• Children and youth who are temporarily sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason

• Children and youth who may be living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, shelters due to economic hardship

• Children and youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings

• Children and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings, or
• Migratory children who qualify as homeless because they are children who are living in similar circumstances listed above

1. Complete the Housing Questionnaire (available in English /  Spanish / Ukranian / Chinese).
2. Email your completed form to Laura Upson, YIT Coordinator, at [email protected]. For help in completing or returning the form, call the YIT office at 1 (858) 748-0010 x 4086.
3. Once YIT has received the completed necessary form(s), PUSD staff will reach out with program information. Note: the Housing Questionnaire is valid only for the current school year. BY LAW, families must complete a new form each school year.