Vermont's Education for Homeless Children and Youth program ensures that children experiencing homelessness have access to the same public educational opportunities (pre-k to 12) provided to other Vermont Children. The Education for Homeless Children and Youth program is supported by funding from the McKinney -Vento Act.
Section 725(2) of the McKinney-Vento Act defines “homeless children and youths” as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.
The term includes—
• Children and youths who are:
- sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason (sometimes referred to as “doubled-up”);
- living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
- living in emergency or transitional shelters; or
- abandoned in hospitals;
• Children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
• Children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and
• Migratory children who qualify as homeless because they are living in circumstances described above.
For more information about the education of homeless children
and youth please visit the VT AOE Webpage, here.
Contacts:
MVSD Homeless Liaison
Wendy Cunningham
(802) 868 4967 ext 34
Wendy.cunningham@mvsdschools.org
OR
Vermont Agency of Education
Homeless Education Program Coordinator
(802) 479-3112