EHCY Resources

Best Practices

Hartland-Lakeside Joint School District #3. "Annual Notice: Homeless Children." Hartland, WI: May 2007.
Available online at: http://dpi.wi.gov/homeless/doc/annual_notice.doc

Kenosha Unified School District. "An After-School Tutoring Program for At-Risk and Homeless Children." Kenosha, WI: KUSD, date?.
Available for $30 (plus $5 s/h) from: Office of Educational Accountability, Kenosha Unified School District #1, 3600 52nd Street, Kenosha, WI 53144 (tel. 262/653-6259).

Nussbaum-Beach, Sheryl. "Unexpected Outcomes: Empowering Those Who Need It Most." PowerPoint presentation from keynote address at the 2006 National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Available online at: http://naehcy.wikispaces.com/

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. "Where to Write for Vital Records." Hyattsville, MD: NCHS, August 2007.
Available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm

Vail, Kathleen. "Where the Heart Is." American School Board Journal, June 2003. Available online at: homeless/pdf/heartis.pdf

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. "National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week." PowerPoint presentation. Madison: WDPI, 2005. Available online at: ppt/hung_hmls_aware.ppt

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction article: Team Approach to Support Highly Mobile and Homeless Student

Preschool

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. "Preschool Children and the McKinney-Vento Act." Madison: WDPI, June, 2008. Available online at: http://dpi.wi.gov/homeless/pdf/preschool_mv.pdf

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. "Best Practices for Identification and Enrollment of Homeless Preschool Children." Madison: WDPI, June 2008. Available online at: http://dpi.wi.gov/homeless/pdf/preschool_best.pdf

Associations/Organizations

• After-School Alliance http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/
• Charles A. Dana Center Internet Resources http://www.utdanacenter.org/shelters/resources.html
• Harvard Family Research Project http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/storybook/index.html
• National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY) http://www.naehcy.org/
• National Center for Children and Poverty http://www.nccp.org
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (800) 843-5678 or http://www.missingkids.com
• National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE http://www.serve.org/nche/
• National Law Center on Homeless and Poverty http://www.nlchp.org/
• National Runaway Switchboard (800) 621-4000 or http://www.nrscrisisline.org
• Teachers Helping Teachers http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/EducationalResources.html
• United Migrant Opportunity Services http://www.umos.org/childhood/
• Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence http://www.wcadv.org
• Wisconsin Domestic Abuse Agencies
• WI Front Door http://www.wifrontdoor.org/
• Wisconsin Runaway Programs http://dpi.wi.gov/pdf/runaway_directory.pdf

Parent Information

Parent Orientation of McKinney-Vento - This 11 minute web-based orientation explains the education rights of homeless students to parents.
Available online at: http://servepres.serve.org/parents

Parent/Home Involvement in Schools http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/qf/homework.htm

Title I Funds

Transportation

For questions about this information, contact Mary M. Maronek (608) 261-6322

Last updated on 1/6/2009 1:09:25 PM