This California laws requires state universities and community colleges to give priority for student housing to current and former foster youth, including for housing facilities that are open for year-round occupation.
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This Colorado tip sheet lists strategies for providing a welcome environment and an effective support response for unaccompanied homeless youth in institutions of higher education.
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This Colorado tip sheet provides strategies for higher education personnel for determining independent student status on the FAFSA for unaccompanied homeless youth and for providing continued support for these students once their college enrollment has occured.
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This form, created by the Loyola University's Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, guides university staff through a series of questions to use in evaluating whether a student meets the McKinney-Vento and College Cost Reduction and Acceses Act's definition of homeless.
Note: Homeless students must qualify not only as homeless, but as unaccompanied, to be granted independent student status as an unaccompanied homeless youth on the FAFSA. This form does not address the unaccompanied issue.
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This sample independent student verification form can be placed on your agency's letterhead and used to provide documentation of your determination of a student's unaccompanied homeless, and therefore independent, student status. NOTE: This template is to be used for students attending college for the 2011-2012 school year; please update the dates for different school years.
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This PowerPoint presentation, presented at 2011 Conference of the National Association for Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) in Boston in July 2011, provides higher education and college access professionals with important information about College Cost Reduction and Access Act provisions pertaining to unaccompanied homeless youth.
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