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Liaison helps students who fall in a broad category of homelessness access school services and achieve high standards in school.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Truancy Program - Assists schools and families with services to ensure children age 6-17 attend school and helps eliminate any obstacles that are preventing this.
Homeless Coordination - The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- A free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool programs.
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.
- Assistance with transportation, if needed.
- Help families with supply needs (i.e., personal hygiene products, undergarments, school supplies, PE clothes, alarm clocks).
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Truancy Counseling
A Homeless Liaison is appointed to provide public awareness and assist school district's homeless liaison to eliminate barriers that may prevent homeless students from receiving immediate and full participation in educational activities.
Homeless Liaisons also work to ensure that homeless children have a right to:
- A free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool programs (includes waiver of required school fees that would be a participation barrier for homeless families).
- The choice of staying in the school or origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- In the case of unaccompanied youth, consideration is given to the youth's wishes.
- Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at the time of enrollment.
- Assistance with transportation if needed.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Works with the schools and community agencies to make sure students and families who are experiencing housing difficulties have resources available to them.
Rights of the homeless child or youth:
- Have the right to remain at their school of origin.
- Have the right to transportation.
- Access to educational programs and educational resources (expedited assessments, tutoring, etc.).
- Waiver of fees/costs associated with required aspects of the educational setting (registration fees, lunch fees, course fees, etc.).
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- A free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool programs.
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.
- Assistance with transportation, if needed.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Provides technical assistance, information, and coordination of services for west central Illinois school districts regarding the rights and needs of homeless children and youth.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Works with homeless children to ensure:
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when required documents such as school records, medical records, proof of residency, or other such documentation cannot be produced at the time of enrollment.
Assistance with:
- Tutoring
- Transportation costs.
- School supplies.
- Clothing and personal hygiene supplies.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- A free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool programs.
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.
- Assistance with transportation, if needed.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Works with homeless children to ensure:
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when required documents such as school records, medical records, proof of residency, or other such documentation cannot be produced at the time of enrollment.
Assistance with:
- Tutoring
- Transportation costs.
- School supplies.
- Clothing and personal hygiene supplies.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- Immediate school enrollment (at either the child's school of origin or current attendance area where child is currently eligible).
- Remain enrolled in selected school as long as homelessness ensues or, if the student becomes permanently housed, until the end of the academic year.
- Priority in certain preschool programs.
- Participate in support programs and other school related activities.
- Obtain information regarding fee waivers, free uniforms, and low-cost medical referrals.
- Transportation services.
Services
Long Distance Bus Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Works with homeless children to ensure:
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when required documents such as school records, medical records, proof of residency, or other such documentation cannot be produced at the time of enrollment.
Assistance with:
- Tutoring
- Transportation costs.
- School supplies.
- Clothing and personal hygiene supplies.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Assistance for homeless students includes:
- Immediately enroll in school even if the student lacks documentation regarding residency, guardianship, immunizations, or school records.
- Attend the school of residence or the school of origin.
- Remain enrolled in the selected school for the duration of homelessness or through the academic year if they become permanently housed.
- Obtain free transportation to/from school.
- Participate in any school activity that is available to other students.
- Receive free school meals without filling out an application.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- A free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool programs.
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment, even when required documents such as school records, medical records, proof of residency, or other such documentation cannot be produced at the time of enrollment.
- Assistance with tutoring, transportation costs, school supplies, and clothing & personal hygiene supplies.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Works with homeless children to ensure:
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when required documents such as school records, medical records, proof of residency, or other such documentation cannot be produced at the time of enrollment.
Assistance with:
- Tutoring
- Transportation costs.
- School supplies.
- Clothing and personal hygiene supplies.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- A free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool programs.
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.
- Assistance with transportation, if needed.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Assistance for homeless students includes:
- Immediately enroll in school even if the student lacks documentation regarding residency, guardianship, immunizations, or school records.
- Attend the school of residence or the school of origin.
- Remain enrolled in the selected school for the duration of homelessness or through the academic year if they become permanently housed.
- Obtain free transportation to/from school.
- Participate in any school activity that is available to other students.
- Receive free school meals without filling out an application.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Provides educational support opportunities. Focuses on bridging the gap between home, school, and community by working collaboratively with schools and community organizations to meet the needs of students and families.
Services offered include:
- In home family skill building.
- Case management.
- Caregiver workshops and groups.
- Social emotional learning, professional development, and coaching for educators.
- Early Childhood Behavioral Health Consultation.
- Extended school day enrichment opportunities.
- Truancy Review Board.
- Attendance Intervention Services.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when required documents such as school records, medical records, proof of residency, or other such documentation cannot be produced at the time of enrollment.
- Assistance with tutoring, transportation costs, school supplies, and clothing & personal hygiene supplies.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- A free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool programs.
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment, even when required documents such as school records, medical records, proof of residency, or other such documentation cannot be produced at the time of enrollment.
- Assistance with tutoring, transportation costs, school supplies, and clothing & personal hygiene supplies.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
Works with all school districts within the area to ensure that students who do not have a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence receive the same rights to an education as other students.
Assistance can be provided for many services that are required by school districts such as:
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.
- School supplies.
- Tutoring, after-school educational programs, correspondence classes.
- Student records, birth certificates, physicals, and immunizations.
- Health referral.
- Emergency transportation.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
- Works with a wide variety of partners to assist in stabilizing homeless children and their families so that they are more responsive to school enrollment.
- Funding is available to resolve issues such as a lack of school supplies, physical education clothing, transportation, alarm clocks, or special school fees such as those for field trips, pictures, and book clubs.
- Funding is also available for tutoring and to assist with the cost of educational summer programs.
Services
School Districts
Homeless School Transition Programs
Resources to help homeless students, including transportation.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- A free, appropriate public education including a priority to preschool programs.
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when medical records cannot be produced at time of enrollment.
- Assistance with transportation, school supplies, clothing & personal hygiene, if needed.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
The local homeless education liaison works with homeless children to ensure:
- The choice of staying in the school of origin or attending the school nearest their shelter or temporary home.
- Immediate enrollment even when required documents such as school records, medical records, proof of residency, or other such documentation cannot be produced at the time of enrollment.
- Assistance with tutoring, transportation costs, school supplies, and clothing & personal hygiene supplies.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs
CPS protects the educational rights of homeless students and ensures they receive all the services, programs, and activities provided to students who live in permanent housing. For students who do not live in permanent housing, attending school and staying on track for their grade can present challenges on many levels and across different areas. CPS schools and networks provide assistance in removing these barriers to qualified Students in Temporary Living Situations (STLS), including the provisions of services such as transportation, school uniforms, school supplies, fee waivers, and referrals to community resources.
Services
Homeless School Transition Programs