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By Andrew Fraieli<\/em><\/h6>\n

Thursday last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law <\/span>a bill<\/span><\/a> expanding certain programs and services for unaccompanied homeless youth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Proposed by Senator Ileana Garcia (R-Miami), House Bill 1577, Homeless Youth, will allow certified unaccompanied homeless youth to receive certified birth certificates at no charge, petition the court to allow themselves to be treated as a legal adult, consent to medical care \u2014 including mental health services \u2014 and for some, waive costs for receiving a license and for their driver education.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond fee waiving, the bill also requires the creation of a liaison position in postsecondary institutions \u2014 such as state-run universities and colleges \u2014 \u201cto assist in resolving any problems\u201d related to the tuition waiver for students experiencing homelessness. Most institutions left it up to the student to traverse the paperwork and meetings required alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also aligns this tuition policy closer to federal guidelines by allowing any student with their tuition waived for being an unaccompanied homeless youth to be \u201cpresumed homeless\u201d for every year after at the same institution unless the students says otherwise, or the institution has conflicting information. Previously, the student had to re-certify their homelessness every year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHomeless youth face many barriers to building successful lives, and we must do all we can to ensure these Floridians do not spend their adult lives recovering from their childhood,\u201d said Senator Garcia in the <\/span>Florida Senate\u2019s press release<\/span><\/a>. \u201cI am hopeful our efforts will help provide Floridians experiencing homelessness meaningful paths to succeed in the classroom and beyond.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The bulk of these services requires the unaccompanied youth to be certified as homeless though. The bill defines unaccompanied homeless youth to be \u201can individual who is 16 years of age or older and is not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian, including a youth who has run away from home, who has been forced to leave his or her home, or whose parents have left the area and left the youth behind.\u201d They also age out of this definition at 18, no longer being youth, making these services functional only for 16 and 17-year-olds.<\/span><\/p>\n

They can only become certified by a school district\u2019s liaison for homeless children and youths, the director \u2014 or their designee \u2014 of an emergency shelter program funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the director \u2014 or their designee \u2014 of a \u201crunaway or homeless youth basic center or transitional living program\u201d funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, or a continuum of care lead agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

This ties the ability to be \u201ccertified\u201d as an unaccompanied homeless youth, and therefore access to the bulk of these programs and fee waivers, to participating in government-funded shelters and programs only.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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