McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act

If your family lives in any of the following situations:

• Temporarily doubled up with friends or family because you cannot find or afford housing

• Living in a motel, hotel, trailer park or campground due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations

• Living in a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train station or similar setting

• You are an unaccompanied youth, under the age of 18, living without a parent/guardian

• Abandoned in a hospital or awaiting foster care

• Living in an emergency shelter or transitional housing

Your child may be eligible for:

• Free breakfast and lunch programs

• Transportation services

• Special transportation for children to remain in their school of origin

• Tutoring programs

• Programs to help children learn English

• Gifted or talented programs

• Summer school programs

• Pre-school programs

• After-school programs

• Special education programs, especially if the student received special education services at their previous school