Thanks to grants from the Beacon Foundation and the American Opportunity Foundation, CARE Services has been afforded the opportunity to provide temporary housing within KSU’s campus housing. The apartments are dedicated to serve as emergency/temporary housing for up to 14 days while the students work with CARE to locate and secure a long-term housing solution. In cases where all beds are occupied the CARE case management team will work with other students on locating shelter options and/or determining the feasibility of CARE securing a local hotel room temporally on their behalf. This determination is largely, but not exclusively, based on the availability of funding, as the services provided by CARE are funded solely on the basis of donations.
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Eligibility Guidelines:
- Students who are:
- currently enrolled and sitting in classes
- actively and consistently working with a CARE Services Case Manager
- 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
- 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 dude 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
- Awaiting stable foster care placement
- 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.