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Lansing USD469 Homeless Resources

The Lansing School District is committed to ensure all children have access to their education on a daily basis. The term “homeless children and youth” are defined as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

The term “homeless children and youth”—

• means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and

  adequate nighttime residence...; and

• includes —

  1. children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals;

  2. children and youths 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...

  3. children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and

  4. migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (1) through (3).

To Apply: Contact Janet Farrar (913)297-0990 or janet.farrar@usd469.net.

All Homeless Information is CONFIDENTIAL.

Homeless Resources for Students Link (English)

Homeless Resources for Students Link (Spanish)

Homeless Resources for Parents Link (English)

Homeless Resources for Parents Link (Spanish)

Support for Students Whose Families Have Lost Their Homes to Foreclosure

Resources for High School Students Trying to go to College