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:

Harriett Tillett, MSA

       Student Support Services Director

Bethel Hill Charter School
401 Bethel Hill School Road
Roxboro, NC 27574

336-599-2823 ext. 223
336-599-9299 (fax)

State Coordinator for Homeless Education:

Lisa Phillips
336-315-7491
lphillip@serve.org