Homeless/McKinney-Vento & Foster

  • Subtitle Vll-B of the McKlnney-Vento Act defines the term "homeless children and youths" OS individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including:

    i. 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 ore abandoned in hospitals;
    ii. 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;
    iii. children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and
    iv. migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are iving in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii). 

Contact

  • For more information please contact our Community Liaisons:

    Last names A-L
    Arturo Fass
    (408) 423-3550

    Last names M-Z
    Beatrice Martinez
    408-423-3516