I met Trevor (name has been changed) when he was a high school senior in 2014. From a coal mining family in western Kentucky, he’d just suffered a major family crisis and his mother was struggling with mental illness. Understandably, his grades were beginning to suffer and he was missing class regularly. At the time, I was the homeless education program manager for Paducah Independent Schools District in Paducah, Kentucky. Trevor’s teacher pulled me aside, concerned and frustrated.