NCHEP website
(https://hepnc.uncg.edu/)
Definition of "homeless" from McKinney-Vento Act
The Education of Homeless Children and Youth Program entitles children who are experiencing homelessness to a free, appropriate public education and requires schools to remove barriers to their enrollment, attendance, and success in school. The McKinney-Vento Act protects all students who do not have a fixed, regular and adequate residence, such as students living in the following situations:
- doubled-up or sharing the housing with others due to an economic hardship
- runaway/homeless youth shelters (even if parents invite the youth home);
- hotels or motels;
- shelters, including domestic violence shelters;
- transitional housing shelters;
- cars, abandoned buildings parks, the streets or other public spaces;
- campgrounds or inadequate trailer homes
- abandoned in a hospital
- other
Homeless Liaison School Contact:
Kelly Franco
Assistant Principal
Bethel Hill Charter School
401 Bethel Hill School Road
Roxboro, NC 27574
[email protected]
336-599-2823 ext. 266
336-599-9299 (fax)
State Coordinator for Homeless Education:
Lisa Phillips
336-315-7491
[email protected]