Housing & Homeless Resources

If you are have unstable housing, you still have the right to enroll your children in school and keep them in their current school even if you are temporarily out of the school district where your children attend school.

You qualify for unstable housing and homeless status if you have no place of your own to stay because you lost your housing and you....

  • are doubled up with family and friends
  • live in a shelter, including transitional programs
  • stay in motels because you can't get your own home
  • are an unaccompanied youth or migrant child
  • live on the streets, in a car, van, tent, or other place that is not a regular place to live
  • are awaiting foster care placement

Students are also considered homeless if they identify as:

  • Runaway children (under 18 years of age) and children/youth who have been abandoned or forced out of the home by parents or other caretakers.  They may be in temporary shelters awaiting assistance from social service agencies, or may live alone on the street or move from place to place among family members, friends or acquaintances. This also includes youth from 18 through 21 years of age who may still be eligible in regular or special education
  • children of migrant families who lack adequate housing
  • children abandoned in hospitals or awaiting foster care
  • school-age, unwed or expectant mothers living in homes for unwed mothers when they have no other available living accommodations

Please contact our school social workers for more information on available resources for families. 

School District of Springfield Township Annual Homeless Information

District Homeless Liaison

Dr. Michelle Lutz

Director of Support Services

215-233-6000 x1017

Resources:

Your Way Home Call Center: Supports Montgomery County families experiencing or at risk for homelessness .  Dial 610-278-3522 to get connected to resources.

Montgomery County Resource Guide: A comprehensive list of community connections designed to support families.  Dial 610-278-3522 to connect to a Community Connection Navicate.

PA McKinney-Vento Resources: Information from the state about the McKinney-Vento Act

I Will Be Your Voice Stories of Homelessness and Hope Podcast: A podcast that highlights stories of hope around homelessness

Homeless Youth Awareness Month SMORE: A district publication with information about November, national homeless awareness month