McKinney Vento / Unaccompanied Youth

Homeless Children and Youth

McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act

 

The Lebanon School District supports the education of homeless youth as required by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 which defines the term homeless children and youth to mean individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

 

Who may be considered homeless?

Children or youth living in a shelter, transitional housing, motel, vehicle, campground, on the street, or doubled up due to lack of housing.

 

Homeless students are defined as individuals lacking a fixed, regular, and nighttime residence, which include students living under the following conditions:

  • Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing or economic hardship.
  • Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to lack of adequate alternative accommodations. Living in emergency, transitional, or domestic violence shelters.
  • Abandoned in hospitals.
  • Living in public or private places not designated for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations for human beings.
  • Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, transportation stations, or similar settings.
  • Living as migratory children in conditions described in previous examples.
  • Living as run-away children.
  • Being abandoned or forced out of homes by parents/guardians or caretakers.
  • Living as school-age unwed mothers in houses for unwed mothers if they have no other living accommodations

Unaccompanied youth is another category under McKinney Vento.  Unaccompanied Youth means a child or youth not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian. This includes youth who have run away from home; been abandoned or forced out of home by a parent, guardian, or other caretaker; or separated from a parent or guardian for any other reason.

 

For more information, please see the following linked resources (McKinney-Vento BEC & Board Policy 251), or reach out to our team. We also urge you to browse our community resources below.

 

McKinney-Vento Basic Education Circular (BEC)

 

Board Policy 251

 

Student Rights


If you have any questions, please contact one of the LSD Homeless Liaisons or reach out to the ECYEH Region 2 Contacts:

 

Becky Dunlop

Certified School Social Worker 

Cell 717-821-5460

Phone 717-273-9391 ext. 6926

[email protected]

Kim Briggs

Certified School Social Worker

Cell 717-821-5459

Phone 717-273-9391 ext. 6925

[email protected]

Vaughn Black

School Family Engagement Coordinator 

Cell 717-675-4837

Phone 717-273-9391 ext. 6925

vblack@lebanon.k12.pa.us


Community and Family Resources