Annually Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teach over 20,000 students who self-identify as homeless. Factoring in the 25-30% who for obvious reasons go unregistered the number quickly approaches 30,000. Astonishingly, 70% of those same students graduate!
When you consider that challenges that these students and their families face to simply survive, it reflects their collective will to “learn their way out of poverty.”
Our LAUSD Homeless Students Program supports unhoused K-12 students by providing them with resources and support to assist in their resilient path to ultimately finishing their education. Our Essential Learning Kits are curated with a “must-have” list from LAUSD as well as hygiene and personal care items for the students and their families.
We recognize that young people living in poverty have an opportunity to “learn their way out” and create stable, thriving lives for themselves and their loved ones.
Through the efforts of our ‘23-24 Youth Council cohort we supplied 40 graduating unhoused seniors with brand new Lenovo laptops to replace their old Chromebooks that they are forced to turn in. And with the sponsorship of generous sponsors we will be supplying 3000 K-12 students and their families returning for the ’24-25 academic year with new portable 4GB hard drives. These are not only vital for their studies but will allow their families who are consistently vulnerable valuable portable document storage hardware.
We continue to explore other material ways to impact the lives of our future with LAUSD. After all, doesn’t it make sense to invest in their futures as early as possible to proactively lift them out of poverty?
Our educational programming focuses on the myriad of challenges facing these students and the success stories of those that are thriving and provide invaluable insight on affordable and practical solutions.
Program-to-date students and families served in this program = 8,000