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Homeless Youth

The term “homeless children and youth”* means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including:

  1. Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason. 

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

  3. Living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals 

  4. 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.

  5. Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings.

Stamford Public Schools District Homeless Liaison is Juan Pazmino, Coordinator of Family and Community Engagement, (203) 977-5312

CT State Depart of Education: Louis Tallarita

*Source: MCKINNEY-VENTO DEFINITION OF HOMELESS 42 U.S.C. § 11434a(2) 

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