Kids Without Homes: Module for Registrars

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Title I HOPE Homeless Outreach Program for
Education Compliance Training for Office
Managers 2007-2008
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Clark County School District2006-2007
More than 3,400 students were identified and
received Title I HOPE services during the last
school year.
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Federal Law

• The McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance
  Improvements Act of 2001 guarantees homeless
  students a free, appropriate public education.

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McKinney-Vento Requires Expedited Services

• Immediate identification
• Enrollment on CCF-705 as homeless according to
  residency criteria
• Referral to counselor
• Entry into SASI as homeless
• Special Education identification
• Pre-K enrollment
• Offer School of Origin, if applicable
• Nutrition
• Access to extra-curricular activities

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Your Tools for Success

• Registrar Handbook
• Framed Residency Posters
• Interact Site
• Communication with Title I HOPE

Global Resources
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• The McKinney-Vento Act defines children and youth
  who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime
  residence as homeless.
• People living in multifamily situations
• People living in hotels or motels
• People living in shelters
• Children awaiting foster care
• People living in cars, parks, campgrounds,
  or on the street

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Clues to determine a transitional living
situation

• Address verification letter
• Hotel or motel address
• Lack of documentation
• Lack of any address

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Economic hardship means homelessness IF

• there are limited financial resources and
  family or youth has been forced to leave personal
  residence and share housing due to the inability
  to pay rent or other bills.

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A long-term cooperative living arrangement

• among families or
  friends that is fixed, regular, and adequate
  should NOT be considered a homeless situation,
  even if the parties are living together to save
  money.

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In other words

• Fixed Regular Adequate
• NOT
• HOMELESS
• Lacking any one of these three conditions would
  make a child eligible for Title I HOPE services.

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ENROLLMENT CHANGES

• NO ENROLLMENT VOUCHERS
• Use the Clark County School District
• CCF-705 Registration Form as the
  enrollment tool for homeless students
• Information maintained and retained
  on SASI
• The Homeless Field indicates residency

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Now you see it
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Now you dont!!!
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At the Counter
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H - Hotel/Motel M - Multifamily S Shelter O -
Other
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Operation School Bell begins at the counter.
While at the counter, the Title I HOPE Operation
School Bell form will be completed both front and
back. Left foot tracing without shoe is also done
at this time. The intact form and foot tracing
stays at the school.
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Parent Communication As Easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. Parent letter plus counselor and/or advocate
name
2. Pamphlet
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3. Operation School Bell
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At the computerBegin with the CCF-705

• FROM THE CCF-705 a determination of
  residency MUST be indicated in the gray
  Homeless Section by writing one of the following
  codes

• H - Hotel/Motel
• M - Multifamily
• S Shelter
• O - Other

M
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Continue the processSASI Page 1
Title I HOPE information only. Bus Field 2 is
not required to be entered by school staff. HOPE
Homeless CCSD Transportation HOPE BP-
Homeless CAT Bus Transport
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Page 2 of SASI

• The appropriate attendance code will be
  located in the
• Att Perm drop down box.
• G homeless unaccompanied youth
• H homeless but not unaccompanied

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Page 3 of SASI

• Homeless field will now be a drop down box.

• This field will be used to indicate residency and
  must be marked in order to identify the child as
  homeless and to provide the request for
  nutrition.

H Hotel/motel M Multifamily S Shelter O
Other
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Page 4 of SASI
Operation School Bell will now be a drop down
box.
A Homeless child has attended Operation
School Bell B Non-homeless child has
attended Operation School Bell
D Decline Title I HOPE
services
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School of Origin Options and Opportunities

• If student withdraws, ask if the student would
  like to stay in their school of origin.
• If a student transfers from another CCSD school,
  ask if the student would like to return to their
  school of origin.

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Title I HOPE School of Origin Transportation
Online Forms.
The application to request School of Origin
transportation begins online.
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When a student no longer requires transportation,
please use the Online Cancellation Form
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SASI IS THE KEY

• NO HOMELESS IDENTIFICATION
• NO SERVICES

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Title I HOPE supports McKinney-Vento by
providing

• Free breakfast and lunch
• School supplies and backpacks
• Transportation to School of Origin
• Birth Certificates
• Curriculum support at school sites
• Summer School Tuition Grant
• After-School Enrichment Program
• Clothing
• Project S.O.S. (See Our Smiles)
• College Scholarships

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Title I HOPE855-6682
Myra Berkovits Coordinator Susan
Goldman SE Region Project Facilitator Jeanne
Lange SW Region Project Facilitator Sara
Duncan NE Region Project Facilitator Dee
Fite NW Region Project Facilitator Jura
Leak East Region Project Facilitator Trudy
Coleman Student Success Advocate Willie
Springfield Office Specialist II Juan
Arias Utility Worker