Partner Resources & Sample Materials

This webpage hosts national-level resources related to data on children and youth experiencing homelessness (CYEH). Below, you can find resources and materials from government entities, national partners, and sample forms and materials from practitioners and partners in the field. 

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National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

• The NCES webpage Homeless Children and Youth in Public Schools features a special data highlight from the NCES report, Report on the Condition of Education 2024. The homeless education data highlights summarize key data points from the 2021 to 2023 school years, including the number and percentage of public school students identified as homeless, the primary nighttime residence of homeless students, the location of homeless students (state, rural, town, suburban, or urban), and more.

• The NCES Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program designs and develops resources on the social and spatial context of education in the U.S. It uses data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to create custom indicators of social, economic, and housing conditions for school-age children and their parents. It also uses spatial data collected to create geographic locale indicators, school point locations, school district boundaries, and other data for spatial analysis. 
  Access the NCES EDGE data tool.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the primary federal entity responsible for supporting local community partners with program delivery related to housing for across the United States.
Visit the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s website.

• The Point-in-Time (PIT) count is an annual count of people experiencing homelessness on a single night in the last 10 days in January. HUD requires its Continuum of Care (CoC) grantees to conduct an annual count of sheltered homeless persons. CoCs also must conduct a count of unsheltered homeless persons every other year. This HUD webpage provides a variety of resources for planning and conducting the annual PIT count, including planning worksheets, survey tools, and data extrapolation tools. 
  Visit the HUD Point-In-Time Count Implementation Tools webpage.

• The Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) is submitted to Congress each year in 2 parts. Part 1 outlines the key findings of the annual Point-In-Time (PIT) and Housing Inventory (HIC) counts conducted in January. Part 2 provides an estimate of the number of people who experienced sheltered or unsheltered homelessness over the course of the year based on Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data. 
  Visit Annual Homeless Assessment Reports webpage.

Privacy and Data Sharing

This webpage from the U.S. Department of Education’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) focuses on the topic of data sharing under FERPA, including exploring best practices and legal requirements for protecting student privacy while sharing data between educational agencies, partner organizations, and other third parties
Visit the Privacy and Data Sharing webpage.

U.S. Census Bureau School District Poverty Estimates

The U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program (SAIPE) produces annually updated school district poverty estimates to support the administration and allocation of Title I funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended. These data include estimates of total population, number of children ages 5 to 17, and number of related children ages 5 to 17 in families in poverty.
Visit the Datasets webpage to access the SAIPE School District Estimates. 

Data Quality Campaign: Using Data to Improve Student Achievement

The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers in improving the collection, availability, and use of high-quality education data, and in implementing state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement.
Visit the Data Quality Campaign website.

Youth Count! Process Study

Youth Count! is a federal interagency initiative that aims to improve counts of unaccompanied homeless youth. Between December 2012 and January 2013, nine U.S. communities participated in the initiative by expanding their annual homeless Point-in-Time count efforts to increase coverage of homeless youth. This report details a process study of the initiative conducted by Urban Institute to identify promising practices that could be adapted and taken to scale to produce credible and useful data nationwide.
Download the Youth Count! Process Study.

Annie E Casey Foundation: KIDS COUNT Data Center

This website brings together data on children’s well-being collected by KIDS COUNT grantees from state and local sources. Users can access state-specific inventories of data from local sources, such as health departments, human services agencies, and schools. Users can access raw data and generate graphs, maps, rankings, and regional or state profiles.
Visit the KIDS COUNT Data Center website.

National Center for Children in Poverty: 50-State Demographics Data Generator

This webpage from the National Center for Children in Poverty provides statistical information about low-income children, focusing on various areas of interest, including family income level; parental presence, education, employment, and marital status; the child’s age and race-ethnicity; and family residential area and moves.

Aligning Education and Housing: Data Sharing Agreement Template

This data-sharing template from the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) aims to foster collaboration between housing and other sectors to improve efficiency, reduce duplication of effort, and enhance holistic care for low-income children. It draws on successfully implemented data-sharing agreements between housing authorities and other organizations. The template allows flexibility by permitting the insertion and deletion of parts, as indicated, to fit community needs.
Download Aligning Education and Housing: Data Sharing Agreement Template.
Download Aligning Education and Housing: Data Sharing Agreement Template (for intermediary organizations).

Seattle Public Schools: Data Sharing Agreement

These Seattle Public Schools agreements allow for the sharing of identifiable or non-identifiable student data with community-based organizations under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act’s institutional service exemption, provided that an annual data-sharing agreement is submitted and reviewed and approved by the district. 
Learn more about Seattle Public Schools Data Sharing Agreements.