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ERIC Number: ED320991
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990-Feb
Pages: 38
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Available Date: N/A
Educating Homeless Children and Youth: A Sample of Programs, Policies and Procedures.
McCall, Kathleen P.
This report reviews a variety of approaches for working with homeless students. Information was gathered from state Coordinators of Education for Homeless Children and Youth, regional coordinators of homeless programs, and national and local organizations. The programs described are organized into five categories. The first concerns educating school personnel and contains one program: the Massachusetts Department of Education Inservice Workshop Project, which identifies the problems of homeless students for educators. The second category focuses on school-shelter cooperation and contains three programs: the Home School Visitors Program (Apache Junction, Arizona), the Oakland Salvation Army Shelter/Oakland Unified School District Program, and the West Virginia Department of Education Rural and Urban Projects. Grouped under category 3, "school-based programs," are the following 7 programs: the Coeur D'Alene School Project (Venice, California), the Transition Room project (Madison, Wisconsin), the Denver Public Schools After School Program, the Maryland Department of Education Homework Assistance Tutorial Program and Helping Hands Homework Assistance Program, the Massachusetts Department of Education Volunteer Tutor Project, the Extended School Day Program (New York, New York), and the Students Living in Temporary Housing Program (New York, New York). Progams for homeless adolescents, the focus of category 4, are the Adolescent Shelter Project (Massachusetts), Project GAIN (Greater Access to Independence) (New York, New York), and the Youth Education and Learning Project (Providence, Rhode Island). Finally, separate school programs, the subject of category 5, are the St. Vincent de Paul Joan Kroc Center/Harbor Summit School Program (San Diego, California), the First Place program (Seattle, Washington), and the Tone School (Tacoma, Washington). A seven-item bibliography, a list of survey responses, and a pamphlet for school personnel working with homeless children are appended. (FMW)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Administrators; Practitioners; Researchers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Center for Law and Education, Boston, MA.
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