Transcript Strategies for Meeting the Educational Needs of Children

Homeward’s Regional Conference
October 20, 2010
Patricia A. Popp, State Coordinator
Project HOPE – Virginia
Kathi Sheffel, Homeless Liaison
Fairfax County Public Schools
 HUD’s assurances for education
 Intersections with EHCY
 Promising Practices
 Network enhancement
HUD ASSURANCE (1)
Title X, Part C
2001 Reauthorization of the
Elementary and Secondary
Education Act
 Reauthorizes the Stewart B. McKinney
Act, originally enacted in 1987
 Provides states with funding to
support local grants and statewide
initiatives
 Requires educational access,
attendance, and success for homeless
children and youth
 Office of the State Coordinator
 LEA Homeless Liaisons
 http://education.wm.edu/centers/hop
e/liaison/documents/Liaisons.pdf
 Share training, invite to CoC
 Form child/youth subcommittee
 Create MOU for information sharing
 Develop referral protocols
 Know the EHCY definition of homeless
 An individual who lacks a fixed, regular,
and adequate nighttime residence,
including children and youth :
 sharing housing due to loss of housing
or economic hardship
 living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or
camping grounds due to lack of
alternative adequate housing
 living in emergency or transitional
housing
Including children and youth :
 abandoned in hospitals
 awaiting foster care
 having a primary nighttime residence
that is a public or private place not
designed for, or ordinarily used as,
regular sleeping accommodations
 living in cars, parks, public spaces,
abandoned buildings, substandard
housing, bus or train stations
 migratory students meeting the
description
 unaccompanied youth meeting the
description
 2 million people annually – ½ children
 USED 2008-09 data (NCHE) : 956,914
students enrolled (41% increase over 2 years)
 Virginia 2008-09
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PreK-12 – 12,768 (29% increase over 2 years)
PreK – 408
Elementary – 6,998
Middle – 2,646
High –2,716
Hotel/Motel
12%
Unsheltered
4%
Shelter
20%
Doubled Up
64%
 Posters
 Family brochures
 HOPE briefs
 NCHE Webinars and HOPE training
School is the most normal activity that
most children experience collectively…For
homeless children it is much more than a
learning environment. It is a place of
safety, personal space, friendships, and
support.
Oakley & King, 2000
 Enroll students immediately in local
school OR
 Maintain student enrollment in the
school of origin when feasible and in the
student’s best interest
 Includes transportation
 Even across school division lines
Get the student enrolled and
keep the student enrolled!
 Free school meals
 Transportation
 Title I
 After school and
 Special education
 Gifted programs
summer programs
 Head Start and
(Even Start), VPI
HUD ASSURANCE (2)
 Use an education checklist at intake
 Discuss school of origin (checklist)
 Develop an education plan as part of
family’s case plan
 Link to school services
 Title I
 Tutoring
 After school programs
 Develop a cohesive strategy to support
school stability
 Map school addresses with shelters and
transitional housing programs
 Include school stability as a criterion in
placement decisions
HUD ASSURANCE (3)
 Do not mandate enrollment in local
school
 Do not automatically refer family to
one school
 Review after school participation
requirements that would limit SOO
 Child Nutrition Act
 Title I, Part A
 Higher Education Act
 Early Intervention (IDEA Part C)
 Head Start
HUD ASSURANCE (4)
 If no CSC, who will be designated?
 Share training
 Infant and toddler and early childhood
initiatives
 Head Start Task Force
 ECSE PP
 Shining Stars
 Screening tools, behavior, enrollment
 HOPE Seminars
 NAEHCY Conference – Pittsburgh 2011
 HMSE_PICS.mpg
 NAEHCY – www.naehcy.org
 NCHE - www.serve.org/nche
 NLCHP - www.nlchp.org
 Project HOPE-VA: www.wm.edu/hope
 USDE -
www.ed.gov/programs/homeless/index.htm
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Project HOPE-Virginia
The College of William & Mary
P. O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187
757-221-7776
877-455-3412 (toll free)
757-221-5300 (fax)
[email protected]
www.wm.edu/hope