MCKINNEY-VENTO ACT
The McKinney-Vento Act is a federal law passed to help families who are homeless keep their children in school.
Definition of homelessness–The term “homeless children and youth” means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and can include the following situations:
- Living with a friend, relative or someone else because they lost their home.
- Staying in a motel or hotel.
- Living in an emergency or transitional shelter or domestic violence shelter.
- Staying in substandard housing.
- Living in a car, park or public place, abandoned building or bus station.
- Living in a campground or an inadequate trailer home.
- Abandoned in a hospital.
- Living in a runaway or homeless youth shelter.
Questions and/or additional information related to McKinney-Vento may be directed to our McKinney-Vento liaison at IC Imagine, Jesse Mitchell via email to JesseMitchell@icimagine.org or by phone 828.633.6491. You may also contact Lisa Phillips, State Coordinator for Homeless Education. lphillip@serve.org
***You may also find information on the following websites:
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
National Coalition for the Homeless
Parents in North Carolina may also contact:
Lisa Phillips, State Coordinator for Homeless Education
National Center for Homeless Education
SERVE Center at UNCG
Website: http://www.serve.org/hepnc/
