This page contains resources for families experiencing a housing transition or homelessness and for professionals working with them. If you come across a helpful resource that you would like us to add, email me at blane@wmisd.org.

WMISD would like to thank MOISD for permitting WMISD to share in the resource information from their Families in Transition website.

The law says that a child or youth without a fixed, regular and adequate residence is homeless. It does not matter how long the child or youth has been without a home. It also does not matter if the child or youth is living with a parent or is separated from parents. Under the Act, students are homeless if they are:

• Living with a friend, relative or someone else because they lost their home or can't afford a home

• Staying in a hotel or motel

• Living in an emergency or transitional shelter or a domestic violence shelter

• Staying in substandard housing

• Living in a car, park, public place, abandoned building or bus or train station

• Awaiting foster care placement

• Living in a campground or an inadequate trailer home

• Abandoned in a hospital; or living in a runaway or homeless youth shelter