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Direct linkMelissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
Brandy Sheree Gros – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study aimed to explore how University Liaisons respond to homelessness on their campus. With new federal and state laws being enacted, little research focuses on the policies, programs, and services at universities. Community Colleges tend to be a more attractive option for homeless youth due to the low cost; however, universities are also…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, State Legislation
Download full textOffice of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
Career-connected learning is an educational strategy that combines high-quality academic instruction, skill-based learning, and real-world experiences to prepare students with the knowledge and skills that they need to pursue their career goals. Career-connected learning is especially important for an often-overlooked group of students including…
Descriptors: Youth, Mobility, Career and Technical Education, Foster Care
Kelly L. Harter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Due to the growing number of students enrolling as homeless in American public schools, a quantitative design was applied to determine if students in an Illinois suburban, kindergarten through eighth grade school district (District A), who are enrolled under the McKinney-Vento Act and are receiving resources of food, shelter, clothing, and…
Descriptors: School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
National Center for Homeless Education, 2023
Systems navigators help local educational agencies (LEAs) meet the needs of students experiencing homelessness and decrease barriers to their education by connecting them--and often their families--to resources and community organizations that can provide wraparound services. This National Center for Homeless Education brief: (1) provides…
Descriptors: Homeless People, School Districts, Student Needs, Barriers
Jacobs, Mary M. – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2017
Counterportraits from a qualitative study of family literacy at a homeless shelter illustrate the impact of institutionalized racism on parent narratives about neighborhoods, communities, and schools. Black parents privileged Whiteness through "minority majority storytelling" (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002) to make sense of their lives in…
Descriptors: Homeless People, African Americans, Racial Bias, Parents
Werner, Stephanie M. – Online Submission, 2022
The goal of this brief is to provide a summary of research from various scientific and educational fields on trauma informed care (TIC) for educators and administrators supporting the mental and physical health of youth experiencing homelessness (YEH), with specific recommendations related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Background: The COVID-19…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Mental Health, Physical Health, At Risk Students
Samuels, G. M.; Cerven, C.; Curry, S.; Robinson, S. R.; Patel, S. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
This Research-to-Impact brief is the sixth in a series by Chapin Hall's Voices of Youth Count on understanding and addressing youth homelessness. This brief draws exclusively on the in-depth interview (IDI) component from Voices of Youth Count. The 215 young people that were interviewed across five diverse U.S. counties shared stories of…
Descriptors: Youth, Homeless People, Individual Needs, Family Needs
Ingram, Erin S.; Bridgeland, John M.; Reed, Bruce; Atwell, Matthew – Civic Enterprises, 2017
Student homelessness is on the rise, with more than 1.3 million homeless students identified during the 2013-14 school year. This is a 7 percent increase from the previous year and more than double the number of homeless students in 2006-07. As high as these numbers seem, they are almost certainly undercounts. Despite increasing numbers, these…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Public Schools, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Johnson, Kristen A.; Grazulis, Jessica; White, Joshua K. – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
One of the purposes of higher education is to promote citizenship and social justice. This article explores the way Aurora University is helping students to discover what matters through the impact of "Sleep Out on the Quad," which is an event that uses multiple pedagogies to impact student learning of homelessness. It serves as a call…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Citizenship Education, Homeless People, Social Problems
Nix-Hodes, Patricia; Heybach, Laurene M. – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
While the intent of the federal and state homeless education laws is clear, securing the educational rights of students without housing has been a long legal and political struggle in Chicago and Illinois. Education for students experiencing homelessness is a continuation of the civil rights struggle for equality in education and educational…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Equal Education, Civil Rights, Educational Legislation
Sosin, Michael; George, Christine; Grossman, Susan – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
This work analyzes the relationship between the services clients receive in treatment programs and client ratings of program efficacy. It relies on data from a random sample of clients served by Chicago's homelessness system (N = 554). Regressions utilizing that data suggest that ratings of program efficacy are positively predicted by program…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Housing, Professional Services, Homeless People
Dworsky, Amy – Prevention Researcher, 2010
While many young people depend on parental financial and emotional support well past the age of 18, those who are homeless must make the transition to adulthood without that support. This article discusses the needs of homeless youth as they transition to adulthood. It then describes three housing-based independent living programs designed to…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Youth, Individual Needs, Independent Living
Medeiros, Debra; Vaulton, Wendy – Zero to Three (J), 2010
The Strengthening At Risk and Homeless Young Mothers and Children Initiative, funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, aims to improve the housing, health, and development of homeless and at-risk young families. This article describes the services provided in four program sites (Pomona, CA; Antelope Valley, CA; Minneapolis, MN; and Chicago, IL)…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Homeless People, Mothers, At Risk Persons
Canfield, James P.; Teasley, Martell L.; Abell, Neil; Randolph, Karen A. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objective: The McKinney-Vento Act (MVA) is the primary federal policy addressing homelessness in America with specific mandates designed to ameliorate the effects homelessness has on educational attainment for school-age children. The extent to which this policy is implemented may have far-reaching effects for homeless children. The MVA…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Measures (Individuals), Social Work, School Social Workers
