Local Liaison: Robyn Castle Assistant Director Special Services (734) 246-4619 Ext 9902 castler@sgate.k12.mi.us
| State Liaison: Pamela Keis-Lowe (517) 241-1162
Kies-LoweP@michigan.org
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Information:
McKinney-Vento Definition of "Homeless”
Subtitle B of Title VII of the McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance Act (Title X, Part C, of the No Child Left Behind Act) defines
"homeless" as follows:
The term "homeless children and youths"--
(A) means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate
nighttime residence (within the meaning of section 103(a)(1)); and
(B) includes--
(i) children and youths who are sharing the housing of other
persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are
living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of
alternative adequate accommodations; are living in 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 (within the meaning of section
103(a)(2)(C));
(iii) children and youths who are living in cars, parks,
public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations,
or similar settings; and
(iv) migratory children (as such term is defined in section
1309 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) who qualify as
homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in
circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii).
Resources
- Information on the McKinney-Vento Act and resources,
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