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Offers a local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure a free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool program. The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home. Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.

May also offer assistance with transportation, if needed.

Offers a local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure a free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool program. The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home. Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.

May also offer assistance with transportation, if needed.

Works with a wide variety of partners to assist in stabilizing homeless children and their families so that they are more responsive to school enrollment.

Funding is available to resolve issues such as a lack of school supplies, physical education clothing, transportation, alarm clocks, or special school fees such as those for field trips, pictures, and book clubs.

Funding is also available for tutoring and to assist with the cost of educational summer programs.

Assistance for homeless students includes:

- Immediately enroll in school even if the student lacks documentation regarding residency, guardianship, immunizations, or school records.

- Attend the school of residence or the school of origin.

- Remain enrolled in the selected school for the duration of homelessness or through the academic year if they become permanently housed.

- Obtain free transportation to/from school.

- Participate in any school activity that is available to other students.

- Receive free school meals without filling out an application.

The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:

- A free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool programs.

- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.

- Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.

- Assistance with transportation, if needed.

Works with all school districts within the area to ensure that students who do not have a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence receive the same rights to an education as other students.

Assistance can be provided for many services that are required by school districts such as:

- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.

- Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.

- School supplies.

- Tutoring, after-school educational programs, correspondence classes.

- Student records, birth certificates, physicals, and immunizations.

- Health referral.

- Emergency transportation.

Equal Chance Homeless Education Program helps families, educators, and community organizations gain critical information and make vital connections to restore educational access to children who are homeless (grades preschool to high school).

- Services include help for school personnel to identify homeless students so they can immediately be enrolled in school and training on rights and needs of homeless students.

- Social service staff can assist if enrollment problems occur.

- Although this office cannot assist homeless students financially, they can give appropriate referrals to local human service agencies who may be able to help.

Homeless family support in accordance with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act assists homeless students in breaking down barriers for education.

The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:

- Immediate school enrollment (at either the child's school of origin or current attendance area where child is currently eligible).

- Remain enrolled in selected school as long as homelessness ensues or, if the student becomes permanently housed, until the end of the academic year.

- Priority in certain preschool programs.

- Participate in support programs and other school related activities.

- Obtain information regarding fee waivers, free uniforms, and low-cost medical referrals.

- Transportation services.