Sentences with phrase «which homeless children»

The states in which homeless children fare best are Vermont, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Maine.

School district of origin means the school district within the State of New York in which the homeless child was attending a public school on a tuition - free basis or was entitled to attend when circumstances arose which caused such child to become homeless, which is different from the school district of current location.

Whenever the school district of current location is designated, the child shall be entitled to attend the school that is zoned for his or her temporary location or any school that nonhomeless students who live in the same attendance zone in which the homeless child or youth is temporarily residing are entitled to attend.

Where the school district in which a homeless child is temporarily housed is the same district the child attended on a tuition - free basis or was entitled to attend when circumstances arose which caused the child to become homeless, the child shall be entitled to attend the schools of such district without the payment of tuition for the duration of homelessness.

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For a number of years, I had been on the board of Project Hope, which operates a shelter and provides services for homeless women and children in Boston.

And he sponsors in - store charitable events, during which customers sew caps for cancer patients and sleeping bags for homeless children.

I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?

CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

Loyal Hana hearts baby2baby, which helps over 67,000 children a year in the greater Los Angeles area by distributing new and gently used items to over 50 organizations including homeless and domestic violence shelters, Head Start programs and hospitals.

This brief, which contains the most recent data available, explains the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Child Nutrition Division policies regarding eligibility for free school meals for certain homeless, migrant, runaway, and foster students; addresses frequently asked questions about implementing these policies; and offers tools to ensure that these students can access food both inside and outside of school.

They know that the 128,000 children and their families that will be homeless this Christmas don't need a so - called «affordable home» which is slightly less expensive than the average local property.

During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

In a letter to DHS, Quinn states that the agency's «Code Red» and «Code Blue» policy — which is trigged by dangerously hot or cold temperatures and ensures «homeless single adults» shelter at such times — wrongly denies the same protections to homeless families, including those with children.

Indeed, I published a report a year ago almost to the day that showed that there are 130,000 homeless children living in various forms of temporary accommodation, which is double the number 10 years ago.

Proponents of universal free lunch argue that it would remove the stigma associated with the current program, which gives free lunches to low - income and homeless children.

Quinn, now the CEO of nonprofit Women in Need, which runs shelters for homeless women and children, said she'd like to see Cuomo's housing plan passed.

«With record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.»

Based on the bestselling book, which inspired both a sequel and a children's adaptation, «Same Kind of Different as Me» is the true story of a wealthy Texas white couple, Ron and Debbie (Greg Kinnear and Renee Zellweger), who befriend a violent homeless man (Djimon Hounsou).

During the summer months, the Frederick agency, which also provides outreach, health care, and other services to the homeless and needy, serves more than 60 meals a day to school - age children.

His welcoming project — which resulted in a series of strategies schools can use to ease transitions — is an antidote to that invisibility, and it provides tools schools can use to help orient other highly mobile student populations, like homeless children, foster children, or immigrants.

The ESSA would increase funding under Part A of Title IX, which provides funding for homeless children, from approximately $ 65 million annually in 2015 to $ 85 million annually from 2017 through 2020.

At Public School 156 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, which enrolls mostly African - American and Hispanic children, many living in homeless shelters, Cathy Vail randomly sorts her fifth graders at the beginning of the year using lettered sticks.

School district of current location means the public school district within the State of New York in which the hotel, motel, shelter or other temporary housing arrangement of a homeless child, or the residential program for runaway and homeless youth, is located, which is different from the school district of origin.

Where the public school or school district a homeless child was attending on a tuition - free basis or was entitled to attend when circumstances arose which caused the child to become homeless is located outside the State, the homeless child shall be deemed a resident of the school district in which the child is temporarily located and shall be entitled to attend the schools of such district without payment of tuition.

(a) For families and children moving out of the community in which they are currently served, including homeless families and foster children, a program must undertake efforts to support effective transitions to other Early Head Start or Head Start programs.

We embrace our diverse communities, which include immigrants, people of color, children with disabilities, the homeless, English language learners, peoples of all faiths, and the GLBTQ community.

A school or district staff member who reasonably believes a child may be a child with a disability has a legal duty to refer the child, including a homeless child or a child advancing from grade to grade, to the school district in which the child is enrolled.

Homeless children and youth and their families receive educational services for which they are eligible, including Head Start, Even Start, and preschool programs administered by the LEA, and referrals to health, mental health, dental, and other appropriate services;

Others, including parents, who reasonably believe a child is a child with a disability may also refer the child, including a homeless child or a child advancing from grade to grade, to the school or district in which the child is enrolled.

In its draft form, K - 12 money would be distributed based on the Local Control Funding Formula, which directs money to districts based on their enrollment of low - income, foster and homeless children and English learners.

Many schools serve large numbers of disadvantaged students, but Children's First Academy is unique: One hundred percent of the students and families are at the poverty line and 40 percent are homeless, which includes students in shelters, transitional housing and multiple families living under one roof.

The Children First charter has been active since 2008 when Edkey, Inc. took over the charter from the Thomas J. Pappas School for the Homeless, which was shut down due to financial difficulties.

Homeless children and youths should have access to education and other services that they need to meet the same challenging state student achievement standards to which all students are held.

Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»

(Texas) Outcomes for homeless children in Texas may largely depend on which state or educational agency identifies them first, according to a new study.

Homeless children and youth must have access to the educational and other services that they need to enable them to meet the same challenging State student academic achievement standards to which all students are held.

The campaign, which seeks to focus on homeless students at every stage of academic development, set three goals for the country: young children experiencing homelessness will participate in quality early childhood programs at the same rate as their housed peers by 2026, high school students will reach a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2030, and post-secondary students will reach an attainment rate of 60 percent by 2034.

They will also help to clarify the unique needs of the rising homeless student population, which includes more than 1.3 million children throughout the country.

Others, including parents, who reasonably believe a child is a child with a disability may also refer the child, including a homeless child, to the school or district in which the child is enrolled.

A school staff member who reasonably believes a child may be a child with a disability has a legal duty to refer the child, including a homeless child, to the school district in which the child is enrolled.

More than 50,000 public schools across the country use Title X funds to provide transportation services, educational services for which the child or youth meets the eligibility criteria, programs in vocational and technical education, school nutrition programs, and to prepare teachers to deal with the unique challenges the homeless student must confront to attain academic achievement.

He also has consulted with nonprofits, and has been a board member of one which serves the families of gravely ill children, and another which serves homeless veterans and their families.

H) have been verified during the school year in which the application is submitted as either unaccompanied youth who is a homeless child or youth or as unaccompanied at risk of homelessness and self - supporting, or

35 % of the homeless population are families with children, which is the fastest growing segment of the homeless population.

Great Rail Journeys has an ongoing affiliation and support with the UK based charity Railway Children, which aims to help children both in the UK and in India that may find themselves homeless or working in and around railway sChildren, which aims to help children both in the UK and in India that may find themselves homeless or working in and around railway schildren both in the UK and in India that may find themselves homeless or working in and around railway stations.

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The people they help include families at risk of being made homeless, elderly and disabled people who need help to access the support to which they are entitled, women and children who have been victims of trafficking and people at risk of becoming destitute.

[3] The authorizing legislation for the property tax includes the following uses [RSMo 210.861.4]: (1) Up to thirty days of temporary shelter for abused, neglected, runaway, homeless or emotionally disturbed youth; respite care services; and services to unwed mothers; (2) Outpatient chemical dependency and psychiatric treatment programs; counseling and related services as a part of transitional living programs; home - based and community - based family intervention programs; unmarried parent services; crisis intervention services, inclusive of telephone hotlines; and prevention programs which promote healthy lifestyles among children and youth and strengthen families; (3) Individual, group, or family professional counseling and therapy services; psychological evaluations; and mental health screenings.

Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»

When these barriers are not addressed, homeless children and youth often are unable to attend, or even enroll in, early childhood programs or school, which prevents them from obtaining the early care and education that is their best hope of escaping poverty as adults.