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Muskegon ISD asks county to help create local housing and services for homeless youth
Summary
Muskegon ISD officials told the Muskegon County Human Services committee that more than 1,000 students are identified as experiencing homelessness and urged the county to help identify a site, recruit a nonprofit partner and secure funding to create youth-specific temporary housing and services locally.
Muskegon ISD leaders told the Muskegon County Human Services committee they are seeing a growing number of students experiencing homelessness and asked the county to help stand up local programming for youth.
"We have about a thousand students, over a thousand students that were considered homeless or face homelessness in some fashion," Randy Lindquist told commissioners, describing a trend the ISD says is rising and likely underreported. Lindquist and Rachel Zaragoza, the ISD's McKinney-Vento regional coordinator, urged county support to identify facilities, partners and funding to serve youth 18 and under.
Zaragoza said school liaisons identify students under the federal McKinney-Vento law and try to reduce barriers to attendance by arranging transportation…
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