Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness (ECYEH)

We can help with the following:

• School enrollment/placement
• Agency referrals (clothing, food, shelter)
• Tracking/transferring school records
• Accessing educational programs
• Interagency problem-solving
• Increasing public awareness of homelessness
• Consultative phone calls to answer school, agency and shelter questions
• Training and education
• Outreach visits
• School supplies/clothing

Our goal

• Ensure that all children and youth experiencing homelessness enroll, participate, and have the opportunity to succeed in school
• Ensure children and youth experiencing homelessness receive a free and appropriate public education on an equal basis
• Eliminate and/or reduce educational barriers through the use of local “best practices” and the authorized activities of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act
• Reduce the disruption in the educational lives of children and youth experiencing homelessness
• Increase awareness about the nature and extent of the problems children and youth experiencing homelessness have enrolling in and gaining access to educational programs
• Explain and build on the laws and policies already in place, which overcome these barriers 

Student's Rights

• The right to immediate enrollment in school, even if lacking paperwork normally required
• The right to attend school in his/her school of origin (if this is requested by the parent and is feasible) or in the school in the attendance area where the family or youth is currently residing
• The right to receive transportation to his/her school of origin, if this is requested by the 
• parent
• The right to services comparable to those 
• received by housed schoolmates, including transportation and supplemental educational services
• The right to attend school along with children not experiencing homelessness. Segregation based on a student’s status as homeless is strictly prohibited

ECYEH Fact Sheet

ECYEH Parent Fact Sheet

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