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McKinney-Vento Educational Enhancement Site

 

About

The McKinney-Vento Educational Program identifies children and youth and removes any barriers preventing them from attending school.  Social Service agencies collaborate with the 91ÊÓƵµ¼º½ Parish School Board to develop and implement programs that will enhance the education of McKinney-Vento families.

Who is McKinney-Vento?

The term "homeless children and youth" means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and includes those:

  • Living in an emergency shelter or transitional housing

  • Abandoned in hospitals

  • Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or campgrounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations

  • Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations or similar settings

  • "Doubled up" living with friends or family due to the loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason

  • An "unaccompanied youth", not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian

  • Migrant children living in these conditions

Services

  • Academic remediation activities at the schools with the highest concentration of homeless children

  • Individual and group counseling

  • School Supplies

  • Parental involvement through parenting training and educational activities provided at the shelters, and the CPSB Parent Center

  • Educational and Recreational Enrichment Programs

  • After-School Tutorial Program for sheltered,  scattered-site students, and schools​​

  • Summer Enrichment Program

Children & Youth in McKinney-Vento situations have the right to...

  • go to school, no matter where they live or how long they have lived there​

  • stay at their school of origin​

  • go to the public school where they live now​

  • enroll in school immediately, even without the normal paperwork​

  • transportation to and from school is provided by the school district

  • free school meals, before and after-school care, special education, and ESL services


Be a part of the McKinney-Vento Educational Enhancement Program!

If you are in transition, please click on the link below, complete the forms, and return them to the following 91ÊÓƵµ¼º½ address mckinney.vento@rpsb.us, mail them to P.O. Box 7117 - Alexandria, LA 71306-7117, or deliver them to the 91ÊÓƵµ¼º½ Parish School Board Office at 619 6th St, Alexandria, LA 71301.


 


Contact Us

Call Us:  318-442-8891 Ext. 3328

Email Us: mckinney.vento@rpsb.us

Address: 619 6th St, Alexandria, LA 71301

Louisiana Department of Education Hotline: 1-877-453-2721

National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty: 1-800-308-2145

Contact

Renisha Sampract-Beaudion

Homeless Liaison

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