Relevant Publications on the Internet

Services & Programs
• Admission of Homeless Students
• Education of Homeless Children and Youth
• Helping Homeless Students
• Homeless Students
• Homeless Student Assistance Program
• Homeless Students in the Economic
• Homelessness: Programs and the people they serve
• MISD:Homeless Students
• Runaway & Homeless Youth and Relationship Violence Toolkit
• School Enrollment for Unaccompanied Youth
• Services for Homeless Students

Organizations/Association
• End Homelessness!
• National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
• National Runaway Switchboard Information
• The Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act

Reports/Fact Sheets/Literatures
• Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population
• Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Policies
• "Guidance for Homeless Students Under No Child Left Behind Act" U.S. Department of Education
• Homeless Children: Addressing the Challenge in Rural Schools
• Homeless Children: Meeting the Educational Challenges
• Homelessness: A Common Vocabulary Could Help Agencies Collaborate and Collect More Consistent Data
• Homelessness: Improving Program Coordination and Client Access to Programs
• Homelessness in Urban America
• K-12 Education: Many Challenges Arise in Educating Students Who Change Schools Frequently
• Meeting the Service Needs of Homeless People and Communities
• National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty: Fact Sheet on the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
• Runaway and Homelessness Youth Grants: Improvements Needed in the Grant Award Process
• Rural Homelessness: Better Collaboration by HHS and HUD Could Improve Delivery of Services in Rural Areas
• SEC. 323. Education for Homeless Children and Youth
• A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities
• Unaccompanied Children and Youth Who Are Homeless

Videos
• Larkin Street Stories: Serving Homeless LGBTQ Youth

Related Agencies and Websites

• American's youngest outcasts: State report card on child homelessness
• Homelessness Resource Center (SAMHSA)
• Colorado Department of Education: Homeless Children and Youth Page
• Education for Homeless Children and Youth--Grants for State and Local Activities
• The Institute for Children and Poverty: Homes for the Homeless
• National Alliance to End Homelessness
• National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• Runaway & Homeless Youth and Relationship Violence Toolkit (2009)
• State Contacts for the Education of Homeless Children & Youth
• Texas Homeless Education Office

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained at Your Local Library

• A new challenge for school counselors: Children who are homeless. Strawser, Sherri; Markos, Patricia A.; Yamaguchi, Barbara J.; Higgins, Kyle. Professional School Counseling. American School Counselor Association: US, 2000 Feb. 3 (3): p. 162-171.
• Changes in the social skills and behavior problems of homeless and housed children during the preschool year. Koblinsky, Sally A.; Gordon, Amy L.; Anderson, Elaine A. Early Education & Development. Wide Range Inc: US, 2000
  May. 11 (3): p. 321-338.
• "Mental Disorder and Comorbidity Among Runaway and Homeless Adolescents" L. Whitbeck, et al.In the Journal of Adolescent Health. 2004 August. 35(2): 132-140.
• Modern Homelessness: A Reference Handbook. Hombs, M.E. (2011). ABC-CLIO.
• Predictors of academic achievement among homeless and low-income housed children. Buckner, John C.; Bassuk, Ellen L.; Weinreb, Linda F. Journal of School Psychology. Elsevier Science Inc: US, 2001 Jan-Feb. 39 (1): p. 45-69.
• Working with Young Homeless People. Robinson, Phil. (2008). Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

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