About CARE Services

• Individuals and families who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and includes a subset for an individual who is existing in an institution where he or she resided for 90 days or less and those who have resided in an emergency shelter or a place not meant for human habitation immediately before entering that institution;
• Individuals and families who will imminently lose their primary nighttime residence and have proof of an eviction notice;
• Unaccompanied individual and families defined as homeless based upon the McKinney-Vento Act. The McKinney-Vento Act defines homelessness as:
  • Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason (also referred to “doubled up” or “couch surfing”)
  • Living in substandard housing such as motels, hotels, trailer parks or camping grounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations
  • Living in emergency or transitional shelters
  • Abandoned in hospitals
  • 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;
  • Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; or
• Individuals and families who are fleeing, or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or other dangerous or life-threatening conditions that relate to violence against the individual or a family member.

• A Runaway Homeless Youth, defined as a youth who is “not more than 21 years of age…for whom it is not possible to live in a safe environment with a relative and who have no other safe alternative living arrangement.”  

Derived from: 

• studentaid.gov
• youth.gov
• studentaid.gov special-circumstance

 

Available Resources:

• Off-Campus Housing Options
• Scholarship Opportunities

At any time since turning age 13, both parents deceased, in foster care, or a dependent or ward of the court.

Derived from: 

• studentaid.gov

 

Available Resources:

• Educational Training Voucher (ETV)
• Scholarship Opportunities

The state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, food.

• Individuals lacking sustainable physical or economic access to enough safe, nutritious, and socially acceptable food for a healthy and productive life.
• When the ability to acquire enough food in a socially acceptable way is limited or uncertain.

Derived from: 

• ers.usda.gov

 

Available Resources:

• Campus Pantries
• Community Pantries
• Scholarship Opportunities