Campus Responsibilities

Responsibilities of the Campus include:

1) Identify a Homeless Coordinator at your campus- This person needs to follow the procedure from start to finish.

A) Have students fill out the SRQ (whenever not completed through InfoSnap),

B) Send SRQ form to the Social & Emotional Services Office at the Ed Center, attention Homeless Liaison, and

C) Make a referral to Debbie Gonzalez if there are any known needs for student(s).

2) The Campus Homeless Coordinator must continue to update the list of students throughout the year. If a student reports a change that would qualify them as homeless during the school year, a new SRQ must be completed following the above procedures.

TEACHERS- you get more information about the living situations than anyone else in the school. Please make sure that the student has an SRQ filled out when you find out about a homeless situation. It may be a temporary situation but it still needs to be documented. Some living situations that we have never looked at as homeless just might qualify. Families living in a house with one or more families, families moving from place to place and families living in hotels/motels.

McKinney-Vento Act Sec 725(2);42 U.S.C 11435 (2)

Definition of Homelessness:

Children and Youth living in different situations are considered homeless under Federal Law. Homelessness is a lack of permanent housing resulting from extreme poverty or from the lack of safe and stable living arrangement. Children and youth in homeless situations often do not fit society's stereotypical images of homelessness. Therefore, educators may not realize the breadth of students who are considered homeless under the McKinney-Vento Act. and, as such, qualify for its protections and services. The McKinney-Vento Act contains a specific definition of homelessness that includes a broad array of living situations.

The term "homeless children and youth":

A) means an individual who lacked fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence....; and

B) Includes........

(i) children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason; are living in motel, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to lack of alternative accommodations; are living in an emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement;

(ii) 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;

(iii) children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public places, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and

(iv) migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of the subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii).