NCHE Brief: Determining Eligibility for McKinney-Vento Rights and Services
Determining eligibility for McKinney-Vento rights and services involves a comprehensive assessment to identify students experiencing homelessness or precarious housing situations. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a federal law, ensures that homeless children and youth have access to a free and appropriate public education. School personnel, liaisons, and community agencies play critical roles in this process. The first step is to identify homeless students, including those living in shelters, motels, cars, or temporarily staying with others due to loss of housing. Once identified, a thorough evaluation of their living conditions and housing stability is conducted to assess the extent of their homelessness. This includes taking into account factors such as nighttime residence, living arrangements, and the lack of a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. Through this careful evaluation, eligible students are granted vital rights and services that foster stability, continuity in education, and opportunities for academic success despite the challenges of homelessness.
This NCHE brief provides a summary of the American Rescue Plan Homeless Children and Youth (ARP-HCY) program state plans, describes trends in using the funds to address the needs of children and youth experiencing homelessness impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and features innovative practices for expanding the capacity of state and local educational agencies to address the needs of children and youth experiencing homelessness.
Providing Wraparound Services Under the American Rescue Plan Homeless Children and Youth Program
This NCHE brief provides an overview of the requirements to provide wraparound services for children and youth experiencing homelessness in the American Rescue Plan Homeless Children and Youth (ARP-HCY), discusses the ways that ARP-HCY funds have expanded the services that state educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) are able to provide, describes the opportunities and challenges for SEAs and LEAs in partnering with community-based organizations (CBOs) and providing wraparound services, lists strategies to build SEA and LEA Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program capacity to provide wraparound services, and spotlights examples of SEA initiatives.
Use-of-Funds Tip Sheet for Serving Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness with McKinney-Vento and the American Rescue Plan
This NCHE tip sheet provides educational administrators in local educational agencies (LEAs) with information and guiding questions to assist them in determining how to spend subgrant funds in their Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program authorized by Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento Act).
Local Liaison Professional Development Strategies Tip Sheet Part A and B Local Liaison Professional Development Strategies Tip Sheet Part A and B Local Liaison Professional Development Strategies Tip Sheet Part A: School Personnel​ This NCHE tip sheet is designed to help local homeless education liaisons when planning professional development sessions, ensuring that school personnel receive professional development and support at least…
Supporting Young Children Experiencing Homelessness Supporting Young Children Experiencing Homelessness Collaboration between practitioners of Education for Homeless Children and Youths (EHCY) and Head Start can increase the identification of young children experiencing homelessness and connect them to appropriate wraparound and educational support services. In this NCHE webinar tailored for school district and Head Start staff,…
Local Education Agency Informal Needs Assessment Local Education Agency Informal Needs Assessment The Local Education Agency Informal Needs Assessment is a tool for local liaisons to determine the status of the services the local education agency provides for homeless children and youth and to identify where to prioritize efforts in fourteen focal areas to support meeting…
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