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Connecting emotionally There are many definitions of homeless youth found within federal code and state code related to program eligibility. For example, the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act defines “homeless youth” as individuals who are less than 21 years of age and for whom it is not possible to live in a safe environment with a relative and who have no other safe alternative living arrangement. This definition only includes those youth who are unaccompanied by families or caregivers.
Through the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the federal government defines “homeless children and youth” as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including children who are sharing the housing of other people, living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camp grounds, emergency or transitional shelters, abandoned in hospitals or awaiting foster care placement, or who are living in a place not generally used for sleeping such as cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, and migratory children living in the circumstances above.
…the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act defines “homeless youth” as individuals who are less than 21 years of age and for whom it is not possible to live in a safe environment with a relative
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What I learned or am learning Another subsection of homeless youth, as defined by the McKinney-Vento Act is “unaccompanied youth”. These are youth experiencing homelessness, as defined above, and not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian. As such, the McKinney-Vento Act definition of homeless children and youth may include both those youth experiencing homelessness with their family or caregiver and those youth experiencing homelessness alone. Unaccompanied youth are captured as a unique subset of data in the annual United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Point in Time Count. This bill creates a grant program to specifically help unaccompanied youth that are 16 to 17 years old.
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