Have a look at Dependency Override:
http://cca-ct.org/financial%20aid%202008.pdf
http://www.finaid.org/educators/pj/dependencyoverrides.phtml
Possible qualifications:
- abandonment by parents
- parents lacking the physical or mental capacity to raise the child
- an unsuitable household (e.g., child removed from the household and placed in foster care)
- failure to properly clothe or feed the family.
A long shot but it might help.