Homeless Services

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Children and youth who experience homelessness have the right to receive a free, appropriate public education, ensured by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001. This law requires schools to remove barriers to enrollment, attendance and success for homeless students. 

Qualifications: 

• in a transitional, domestic, emergency shelter, or a youth shelter
• in a motel, hotel, or campground due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations.
• temporarily living with friends or family members because housing was lost.
• in the community -- living in a car, on the street, or in an abandoned building.
• staying with other people due to loss of housing or economic hardship.

Students' rights:

• receive a no-cost and appropriate public education
• stay in school and attend school currently being attended
• enroll in school without a permanent address, immunizations, or records
• get school meals at no cost
• be provided transportation to school
• receive other educational services

More information available from the National Center for Homeless Education:

1-800-308-2145
homeless@serve.org
www.serve.org/nche