INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES
Homeless Education Program
Every morning as we wake up, over 32,000 children in Oregon wake up homeless. The impact of homelessness on children is difficult to measure but not difficult to imagine.
We see the value and potential in each child--because what is possible for one child to become or achieve, is possible for every child – given the support and opportunities.
Education can play a significant role in meeting the needs of homeless children and youth, providing an environment that supports their physical, social, and emotional growth.
By providing children, youth and their families with resources and support to achieve stability and the confidence for success in school, homeless education programs have significantly improved the odds that today’s homeless children do not have to be tomorrow’s homeless adults.
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Program Services
- School of Origin – We can help students stay in their school. Even if they move, they have the right to stay in whatever school they went to before they lost their housing. This is called their “school of origin.” It is important for students to stay in their school of origin, so they will not fall behind in school.
- Free and Equal Access to School – We can help enroll students in a new school without proof of residency, immunizations, school records, or other papers and help obtain these missing documents.
- Transportation – We can help arrange transportation for students to stay at their “school of origin.”
- Pre-Kindergarten – We can help provide opportunities for students to be in programs such as Head Start, Even Start, and Pre-kindergarten.
- Educational Services – We will make sure that children and youth get the educational and supplemental services that they need to be successful.
- Dispute
Resolution – We will assist in situations regarding enrollment
issues so that they will be settled as quickly as possible.
Links
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- Home:
Youth & Resource Center
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