McKinney-Vento
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, ensures the educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness.
Homelessness is defined as:
- having a lack of fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and includes
children and youth who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing,
- having a lack of fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and includes
children and youth who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing,
economic hardship, or similar reasons;
- children or youth living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of
- children or youth living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of
alternative accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in
hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement;
- children or youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not
designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
- children or youth living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing,
bus or train stations, or similar settings.
Additional resources can be found at:http://www.theotx.org
For information or assistance, please contact:
Brittany Hammond
Homeless Liaison
Goldthwaite Elementary School
b.hammond@goldisd.net
325-648-3055
Cheryl Wright
Homeless Liaison
Goldthwaite Middle and High Schools
325-648-3081
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