Homeless Education Natural Disaster Resources
Resources for Families Displaced by the Wildfires
Below are national briefs and handbooks that can be downloaded and distributed in evacuation centers and other places for families that have been impacted by the fires. The parent handbook and local liaison handbooks are particularly helpful and contain school and community resource information including FEMA, the American Red Cross, and more.
Resources
Connecting Schools and Displaced Students series
- Meeting the Educational Needs of Students Displaced by Disasters: Youth on Their Own (PDF)
- What Relief Agencies Should Know About the Educational Rights of Children Displaced by Disasters (PDF)
- What School District Administrators Should Know About the Educational Rights of Children Displaced by Disasters (PDF)
Connecting Schools and Displaced Students Handbook Series
This handbook series explains how the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act applies to students displaced by disaster and how the Act can assist these students and their families. Each handbook in the series targets information to either parents of displaced children, relief agencies, or educators.
- After the Storm: Information for Parents on How Schools Can Help After Disasters (A Handbook for Parents)* (707K)
- Disaster Relief Agencies and Schools: Working Together to Ensure School Enrollment and Success* (A Handbook for Local Liaisons and State Coordinators)* (566K)
- From the School Office to the Classroom: Strategies for Enrolling and Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness (A Handbook for Local Liaisons, Enrollment Staff, and District Administrators)* (1.69MB)
- School as a Safety Net: Connecting Displaced Children With Educational and Support Services (A Handbook for Relief Agency Staff and Volunteers)* (1.19MB)
Order this product in hard copy. (free product limit: 10 per agency per school year)
Library Services in Wildfire-Affected Areas
- For expanded library services and resources in areas affected by the Colorado wildfires please click the following link: http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/wildfires.htm
Hurricane Emergency Impact Aid
As of August 2006, over $3.9 million was allocated to Colorado K-12 schools through the Emergency (Hurricane) Impact Aid program, to help accommodate for the educational needs of these students. Funding allocations reflect the maximum allocation allowed per student, per quarter under the Hurricane Education Recovery Act (PDF).
Helpful Hurricane Resources
Connecting Schools and Displaced Students Handbook Series
Information on the McKinney Vento Act
The National Center for
Homeless Education at the SERVE Center
For information on the educational rights of homeless children and
youth, please contact Dana Scott, State Coordinator for the
Education of Homeless Children and Youth, Colorado Department of
Education, at (303) 866-6930,
scott_d@cde.state.co.us or
visit
CDE’s McKinney-Vento
Homepage
Colorado McKinney-Vento Homeless Liaisons
Colorado Society of School Psychologists
Charlotte W. Armstrong
Nationally Certified School Psychologist
Monday and Wednesday - Palmer Lake Elementary School (719) 488-4760
Tuesday - Ray Kilmer Elementary School (719) 488-4740
The Colorado Society of School Psychologists State-Wide Crisis Response Team is available to assist Colorado educators, students, families, and communities in preventing and responding to crises. The team provides comprehensive, school-based prevention, intervention and prevention crisis resources, and services. The CSSP State-Wide Crisis Response Team encourages interagency collaboration and services in preparing for and responding to crises that impact the school and community.
Hurricane Relief Resources
- Student Rights
- CDE/USDOE Updates
- Special Education
- Adult Education
- Charter Schools
- Other Schools
- Other CDE Information
- Evacuee Records
NATIONAL AND LOCAL RESOURCES
USDOE
- From September 2005, Key Policy Letters Signed by the Education
Secretary or Deputy Secretary
www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/secletter/050907.html
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HOMELESS EDUCATION
- Increasing School Stability for Students
Experiencing Homelessness Overcoming Challenges to
Providing Transportation to the School of
Origin
www.serve.org/nche/downloads/nche_transp_full.pdf
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
CDC DISASTER SAFETY: ISSUES SURROUNDING SCHOOL-AGE EVACUEES ATTENDING NEW SCHOOLS FACT SHEET (PDF)
COLORADO DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF EXPERTS IN TRAUMATIC STRESS
THE CENTER FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE IN SCHOOLS
For more information on McKinney-Vento
Homeless Education Programs please
contact:
Dana Scott at
(303) 866-6930 or e-mail: scott_d@cde.state.co.us