Brightlane Learning

We transform the lives of students impacted by homelessness and housing instability with personalized tutoring and academic support while advocating for their families as they navigate the educational system.

The highest concentration of unhoused students in Indiana is in Marion County. Children who experience homelessness are 87 percent more likely to drop out of school than their housed peers, which can lock them in the cycle of poverty for generations to come. By providing personalized academic support to students and critical guidance to their families and caregivers, Brightlane Learning supports improved literacy and math skills, grade promotion, credit recovery, and high school graduation so that students facing housing insecurity now have the opportunity for higher wages and more stable futures.

Brightlane Learning provides focused guidance and academic support to nearly 800 K-12 students and 600 parents and caregivers at no cost in more than 30 schools, shelters, and community centers as we equip students and families to become full participants in a learning journey that leads to a brighter future.

With your help, we can empower students experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity to become full participants in their learning journey that leads to a brighter future.

Funding opportunities include programmatic support; adopting a site to provide for the physical needs of unhoused students including critical supplies, snacks and holiday gifts; event sponsorship; matching gifts.