Homelessness Information
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act can help provide school stability for your child if you do not have a permanent home and are:
- Staying with friends or family because you lost your housing
- Living in a shelter, including transitional programs
- Staying in motels because you cannot get your own home
- Living on the streets, in a car, van, tent, or other nonpermanent structure
The Pennsylvania Education for Children & Youth Experiencing Homelessness initiative ensures homeless children and youth a free and appropriate public education on equal basis with all other children of Pennsylvania. Program objectives and activities are intended to remove barriers to enrollment and educational success, and to ensure that education is as uninterrupted as possible while students are homeless.
Barriers Facing Homeless Children
- Lack of school supplies and clothing
- Residency and guardianship requirements
- Lapses in program continuity
- Delays in educational processes
- Lack of transportation to school
- Missing academic and health records
- Inadequate parental resources
- Social stigma attached to homelessness
- Lack of awareness regarding extent and affects of homelessness
Contact us
- If you have been displaced from your home for any reason
- If you are living in a temporary home, doubled up with a family member or friend
- If you do not know where you will be sleeping
Homlessness Liasion - Mrs. Linette Wagner
Phone:(814) 395-3621 EXT:252
Email:lwagner@turkeyfoot.k12.pa.us