The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act provides homeless students are defined as lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including:

1. Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing or economic hardship;

2. Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of adequate alternative accommodations;

3. Living in emergency or transitional shelters;

4. Are abandoned in hospitals;

5. Awaiting foster care placement;

6. Living in public or private places not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;

7. Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, transportation stations, or similar settings; 

8. Migratory children living in conditions described in the previous examples. 

Please contact Dr. Lynnie Brooks McIntosh, Homeless Education Coordinator, at (912) 427-1000 ext. 214 for assistance.