The Youth in Transition serves homeless families by seeking to remove barriers to enrollment, attendance, transportation, and academic success. Families who live in any of the following situations may qualify for services:
- In a shelter, motel, vehicle, or campground
- In a hotel/motel-not paid for by any type of insurance
- On the street
- In an abandoned building, trailer, campsite, or other inadequate accommodations
- Doubled-up with friends or relatives because affordable housing cannot be found - and that doubled-up situation puts the family or students sleeping in some type of temporary situation/location
If a family meets the above criteria, or you are an unaccompanied youth, please complete the following steps:
- Complete the necessary forms:
- Turn in the completed forms to the school site. The school site will email your forms to mhubschmitt@powayusd.com. If you need help with the forms, please contact the school site for assistance.
Note: the Student Residency Affadavit is valid only for the current school year. BY LAW, each family must re-apply and re-qualify each school year.
School-Aged children have certain rights or protections under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act. Those rights are:
- Go to school, no matter where they live or how long they have lived there. Must be given access to the same public education provided to other children.
- Continue in the school attended before becoming homeless or the school last attended, if that is the choice and is feasible. If a school sends a child to a school other than the one requested, the school must provide a written explanation and offer the right to appeal the decision.
- Receive transportation assistance to the school attended before the family became homeless, if feasible, and a parent/guardian requests such assistance.
- Attend a school and participate in school programs with children who are not homeless. (Children cannot be separated from the regular school program because they are homeless.)
- Enroll and attend classes while the school arranges for the transfer of school and immunization records or any other documents required for enrollment.
- Enroll and attend classes while the school and family seek to resolve a dispute over enrolling the children.
- Receive the same special programs and services, if needed, as provided to all other children served in these programs.
For more information about PUSD's Youth in Transition program, download the Youth in Transition brochure (also available in Spanish) and Information for Parents and Youth-Bilingual (reference only).
If further assistance is needed, call the numbers listed below:
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