• Declaration for Missing Enrollment Information- Multiple Languages

• Shared Residence Affidavit - English

• Shared Residence Affidavit- Multiple Languages

• Pixley Housing Questionnaire- English

• Pixley Housing Questionnaire- Spanish

• Guide for Filling Out Housing Questionnaire

ADDITIONAL FAMILY RESOURCES

• Pixley Family Resource Center

Staff Training Modules

• Understanding Homeless Educational Rights video

• Transportation and Homeless Students (Training and Certificate)

• Identifying Homeless Children and Youth

• Supporting Homeless Youth in the Classroom

• Health and Wellness: Resources for school health staff

Additional Training Modules via CDE website HERE

Deyanara Laguna

Coordinator- Student Services

Julia Reese

District Homeless Liaison

Director: Equity, Access, and Student Outcomes

(559) 757-5207 Extension 2902

McKinney-Vento Law

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento Act) (42 U.S.C. § 11431-11435) is federal legislation that ensures the educational rights and protections of children and youth experiencing homelessness. It requires all local educational agencies (LEAs) to ensure that homeless students have access to the same free, appropriate public education, including public preschools, as provided to other children and youth. The McKinney-Vento Act defines LEAs as public school districts, direct-funded and locally funded charter schools, and county offices of education.

Definitions of Homelessness

The McKinney-Vento Act defines homeless children and youth as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. This definition also includes:

• Children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals;
   

• Children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings; 
   

• Children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings;
   

• Migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii)

HOUSING TYPE

• Hotels/Motels means living in a hotel or motel due to not having a fixed, permanent residence.
   

• Temporarily Doubled-Up means living with relatives or friends, due to economic hardship (including unaccompanied youth and runaways).
   

• Temporary Shelters means living in transitional housing.
   

• Temporarily Unsheltered* means living in abandoned buildings, campgrounds, vehicles, trailer parks, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailers, bus and train stations, or is abandoned in the hospital.
   

  • *Unsheltered is also defined as substandard or inadequate housing and is judged on a case-by-case basis. A rule of thumb would be to see the dwelling as comparable to an automobile, in that it shelters, yet it is not adequate housing.