Hey Team,
I am looking into advice for how to handle a situation. I have two siblings in my district (13y and 16y) who previosuly lived with Bio Dad and his longterm girlfriend. Long story short, girlfriend kicked bio dad out of the house and he dropped his two children to stay at a family friend’s house. Family friend is supporting the students well but was not given any power legally by bio-dad before he left (current location unknown). Nobody has been able to contact dad since as he does not have an email address or cell phone listed on file and has no job to call. Family friend has been bringing the students to school but ran into issues when they wanted to take one of the students out early due to illness. Family friend is not on approved pick-up list for the girls.

My question is since the only custodial guardian for these girls is MIA are we able to use a caregiver authorization form to allow the family friend to be the students current contact and allow for school pick-up if needed?