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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you help them research what their school system offers in terms of "vo-tech" courses - like FCPS's academy courses?  Maybe they can graduate HS already having a trade - welding, auto repair, CNA, dental assistant, etc.  These types of programs are great for all kids, esp those who will not go to college.  This will give them a brighter future.[/quote]

Good idea, and OP, you should do this -- but only after you contact the counselors or social service workers or whoever at the boys' schools handles students' family issues. There should be some kind of counselor in the schools whom you can alert to the fact that these kids live on the edge of eviction all the time. If the school doesn't know that already, the school does need to know, and can help connect the family with local social services help.

There are also programs in which school counselors identify students who are at risk of going hungry and provide food donations to those families, and usually in subtle ways (Saturday pickups so the kids don't have to be seen by other kids as they haul home free food, for instance). If you leave the boys and their dad to follow up on your research about courses and future plans -- it seems likely that they won't do so; you need to get a counselor who is IN their geographic area involved with them, and the school is a good place to start. You are not the boys' parent so it may be tough to get the school to talk directly with you about the boys due to schools' reluctance to discuss kids with anyone not their legal guardian, but if you make a trip up there and get dad to buy into approaching the school, you can go with him to see the counselor (and later, that gives you more leeway to contact the counselor to say things you didn't want to say in front of dad).[/quote]

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