Homeless McKinney-Vento

The McKinney-Vento Act’s Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program is to ensure that all homeless children and youth have equal access to the same free, appropriate public education available to other children; and to help them graduate ready for careers, college, and community.

About Our McKinney-Vento Program:

The McKinney-Vento Act’s Education for Kid in Camo Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program and Title I Part A provide students experiencing homelessness with protections and services to ensure they can enroll in and attend school, complete their high school education, and continue on to higher education – their best hope of avoiding poverty and homelessness as adults. The “Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015,” (ESSA), strengthens and improves these programs and the education of over 1.3 million children and youth experiencing homelessness, from early childhood through high school graduation.

Who Qualifies for the McKinney-Vento Program:

The law defines a homeless student or youth as any of the following:

A child or youth without a fixed, regular, and adequate residence
Living with a friend, relative or someone else because they lost their home or can't afford a home
Staying in a hotel or motel
Living in an emergency or transitional shelter or a domestic violence shelter
Staying in substandard housing
Living in a car, park, public place, abandoned building or bus or train station
Living in a campground or an inadequate trailer home
Abandoned in a hospital; or living in a runaway or homeless youth shelter