State & Federal Programs

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

Children and youth who are:

• sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason (sometimes referred to as doubled-up);

• living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations;

• living in emergency or transitional shelters;

• abandoned in hospitals;

• awaiting foster care placement;

Children and youth 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 youth who are living in cars, parks, public places, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and Migratory children who qualify as homeless because they are living in circumstances described above.

Local Homeless Liaison:
Mrs. Jerica Thames
601-774-9579
thamesj@unionyellowjackets.org

State Homeless Coordinator:
Dr. Quentin Ransburg
769-208-4674
qransburg@mdek12.org

Report Waste Fraud and Abuse in United States Department of Education Programs 

Resource Links:

• National Center for Homeless Education

• Mississippi Department of Education- Title IX, Part A (Homeless)

• Title III, Part A - English Learners and Immigrant Children and Youth

• Child Find Program

• Procedural Safeguards

• Understanding ESSA

• Foster Care