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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="11.5-101" title_number="11.5" title_name="Ending Youth Homelessness Act" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Fund” means the Ending Youth Homelessness Grant Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Program” means the Ending Youth Homelessness Grant Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Supportive services” means those interventions, services, and resources necessary to assist Program participants in accessing and maintaining housing and economic self–sufficiency.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Supportive services” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>services for families to prevent separation and support reunification where safe and appropriate;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>housing search, counseling, rental assistance, financial assistance with eviction prevention, utilities, security deposit, and relocation, and other housing support services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>employment assistance, job training, and job placement;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>assistance and advocacy to ensure access to federal, State, and local benefits;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>assistance and advocacy to ensure access to education under the McKinney–Vento Homelessness Assistance Act, financial support for higher education under the applicable provisions of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, 20 U.S.C. § 10877vv(d)(1)(H), and the Maryland tuition waiver program, § 15–106.1 of the Education Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>services to prevent and treat violence and crime victimization;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>case management;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>child care operations and vouchers;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>legal services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>life skills training;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>outpatient health, behavioral health, and substance abuse treatment services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xii">
        <text>transportation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiii">
        <text>outreach services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiv">
        <text>homelessness prevention services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xv">
        <text>aftercare services; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xvi">
        <text>other services as deemed necessary by the Secretary.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Unaccompanied homeless youth” means an individual of 24 years of age or younger who is not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian and lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Unaccompanied homeless youth” includes an individual 24 years of age or younger who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>lives in a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>lives in a motel, hotel, or campground due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>shares the housing of other individuals due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>lives in a transitional housing program or other time–limited housing; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>has a primary nighttime residence which is a public or private place not designed or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for individuals, such as a car, a park, an abandoned building, a bus or train station, or an airport.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Youth at risk of homelessness” means an individual 24 years of age or younger whose status or circumstances indicate a significant danger of experiencing homelessness in the near future.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Youth at risk of homelessness” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an individual 24 years of age or younger exiting a publicly funded institution or system of care;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an individual 24 years of age or younger who has previously experienced homelessness;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>an individual 24 years of age or younger whose primary caregivers are currently homeless or have previously been homeless; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>an individual 24 years of age or younger who experiences serious or sustained conflict with the individual’s caregivers that is likely to result in family separation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
