Homelessness
YSGA strives to support families who are experiencing homelessness.
Homeless students are defined as individuals lacking a fixed, regular, and nighttime residence, which include the following conditions:
- Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing or economic hardship.
- Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations.
- Living in emergency, transitional, or domestic violence shelters.
- Abandoned in hospitals.
- Awaiting foster care placement.
- Living in public or private places not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations for human beings.
- Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, transportation stations, or similar settings.
- Living as migratory children in conditions described in previous examples.
- Living as run-away children.
- Abandoned or forced out of homes by parents/guardians or caretakers.
If you or someone you know at the school is experiencing homelessness please contact me as the McKinney-Vento Act Liaison;
Lauren Kielbasa
Phone: (412) 673-7300, ext. 101
We want to ensure our families are being helped and supported in their time of need!