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Download full textBetter Homes Fund, Newton, MA. – 2000
This packet presents educational materials to help teachers, students, and parents understand homelessness. Section 1, "America's Homeless Children: Educational Information for Students, Teachers, and Parents," discusses what it is like to be homeless, how many children are homeless, how homelessness is harmful, how children become homeless, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Class Activities, Consciousness Raising
Heybach, Laurene M.; Nix-Hodes, Patricia; Price, Sarah – 2000
These training materials provide advocates with the tools needed to help families obtain a stable and effective education for their children despite the condition of homelessness and the trauma that accompanies it. Nine sections include: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "How Mobility Hurts Homeless Children and Schools"; (3) "Laws…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Children, Educational Discrimination, Educational Legislation
Strong, Penny – 1991
This booklet presents information concerning homelessness and the education of homeless children nationwide and in Illinois. Estimates of the number of homeless children vary widely. Reasons for homeless children's failure to attend school include school residency requirements, delays in transfer of documents, and lack of transportation. The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Attendance, Disadvantaged Youth
Capuzzi, David, Ed.; Gross, Douglas R., Ed. – 2004
The fourth revision of this text offers both tested prevention strategies for work with diverse at-risk populations and counseling techniques that address the complexities of destructive behavior from individual, family, school, and community perspectives. Drawing on the wisdom of 24 experts, this book provides concrete advice for creating and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Children
Landsverk, Ruth Anne – 1995
This parents' and teachers' guide presents ways that parents and families of elementary and high school students can become involved in their children's academic progress and can enhance conditions for development of all children in their community. Topics covered in this issue are family involvement, family centers, homeless children, family…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Homeless People
