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McKinney-Vento Homeless Education--Digest 2020 #1

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McKinney-Vento Homeless Education

February 12, 2020

The following items may be of interest to McKinney-Vento Liaisons and staff:

Number of Homeless Students Hits All-Time High – from Education Week 2/11/2020
Privacy, FERPA and Student Homelessness – from SchoolHouse Connection
How to we prevent another generation of homelessness? – from Street Roots’ Next Generation Project
Spring 2020 Regional Liaison Trainings
A training flyer with dates, locations and a link for online registration can be found on the ODE-McKinney-Vento webpage (under Training Opportunities for Liaisons and Others). Spring Trainings are currently scheduled in Clackamas, Pendleton, Vale, Redmond and Burns. An additional site in Klamath Falls is tentative at this time.
Umatilla River flooding and disaster response
East Oregonian – 2/7/2020

Willamette Week – 2/8/2020

How to help:

Red Cross
Donations for the Pendleton flood can be made at the Red Cross website. Red Cross encourages cash donations so that they can use funds to get people what they need after assessments have been made.
Community Action Program of East Central Oregon (CAPECO)
CAPCO is a regional organization that will help evacuees secure housing and meet immediate food needs. Donations can be made at the CAPECO website.
Disaster Preparation and Response: Tips for Liaisons - A set of links, checklists, manuals and briefs by the National Center on Homeless Education, produced in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Includes tips for helping students recovering from disasters and other traumatic events.

A big shout out to the hard-working liaisons in this region (and everywhere)!

For further information regarding the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act and upcoming training opportunities, please contact:

Dona Bolt, State McKinney-Vento Coordinator
Stacie Ankrum, Office Specialist

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