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Mckinney-Vento (Displaced Youth/Families)

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TEHCY

(Texas Education for Homeless Children and Youths (TEHCY) Program)

WHO ARE HOMELESS CHILDREN AND YOUTH?

Before schools can be certain they are complying with legislation related to educating students experiencing homelessness, they must understand who can be considered homeless. The McKinney-Vento Act (Sec. 725) defines "homeless children and youths' (school-aged and younger) as:

  • Children and youths who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including children and youths who are:
  • Sharing the housing of other persons temporarily due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason.
  • Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations
  • Living in emergency or transitional shelters.
  • Abandoned in hospitals
  • Awaiting foster care placement.
  • Children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, regular sleeping accommodations.
  • Children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings
  • Migratory children who qualify as homeless because they are living in the circumstances described above
  • The term unaccompanied youth includes a youth, not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian. This would include runaways living in runaway shelters, abandoned buildings, cars, on the streets, or in other inadequate housing; children and youths denied housing by their families (sometimes referred to "throwaway children and youths"); and school-age unwed mothers living in homes for unwed mothers because they have no other housing available.

RIGHTS OF MCKINNEY-VENTO STUDENTS

Homeless students and their families need to know:

  • Homeless children have a right to attend school.
  • You do not need a permanent address to enroll your child in school.
  • Homeless children have the right to stay in their home school if the parent chooses.
  • Your child cannot be denied school enrollment just because school records or other enrollment documentation are not immediately available.
  • Your child has the right to transportation services to and from the school of origin. 
  • Your child has the right to participate in extracurricular activities and all federal, state, or local programs for which he/she is eligible.
 

WHO ARE UNACCOMPANIED YOUTH?

These are youth not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian. This would include youth living in runaway shelters, abandoned buildings, cars, on the streets, or in other inadequate housing and children and youth denied housing by their families (sometimes referred to as "throwaway" children and youth), and school-age unwed mothers, living in homes for unwed mothers, who have no other housing available.

Parents Flyer of Information

Parents Flyer of Information (En Espanol)


For Information Please Contact Below:

Angela Tullos
Director of Human Resources
[email protected]

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