Beth McCullough ’86 is on the Front Lines of Homeless Education with Roadmap to Graduation Program

Before 2001, there weren’t many students reported homeless in Lenawee County.

However, Beth Friedline McCullough knew there were, plenty of them, in fact, when she started as the homeless liaison for Adrian Public Schools more than 11 years ago.

“Some people politely said, ‘We didn’t have homeless people until you came.’” McCullough said. “I said, ‘That’s not true. It’s just because nobody counted.’”

Last year, more than 600 students were reported homeless in Lenawee County. The 1986 Siena Heights University graduate has made it her mission to make sure these students are counted—and count. Since she helped start the unique Roadmap to Graduation program more than seven years ago, 87 percent of those homeless students go on to attend college—and 100 percent graduate. In fact, two of her 13 students last year were valedictorians of their graduating class.
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