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Plan for Social Excellence, Inc., Mt. Kisco, NY. – 1996
The Westchester Initiative for Homeless Children is an effort of the Plan for Social Excellence, Inc., to improve education. This report updates a 1993 report that studied the limited successes and ongoing challenges of educating homeless children in Westchester County (New York). This update examines changes in educational policy since the first…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Children, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Rafferty, Yvonne – 1990
The 1980s brought an unprecedented rise in the number of homeless families with children. That there may be as many as three million homeless persons in the United States, with families representing one-third of this population, indicates that homelessness is a social problem of catastrophic proportions. This paper finds that while Federal…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Advocacy, Childhood Needs, Children
National Coalition for the Homeless, Washington, DC. – 1988
Homelessness among families is quickly reaching crisis proportions across the country. Over 30 percent of America's three million homeless people are members of families, and families are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population. Perhaps more disturbing, homelessness represents only the most extreme manifestation of a more…
Descriptors: Children, Family Problems, Federal Legislation, Government Role
Education Law Center, Inc., Newark, NJ. – 1999
This document is designed to help New Jersey parents, guardians, and caregivers understand the legal concepts and procedures involved in disputes over the enrollment of homeless students in local public schools. It also informs them of their legal rights. The requirements of the McKinney Act and of the state regulations concerning the education of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Children, Civil Rights, Educational Legislation
Henry, Jean – 2000
This document describes a program designed for women and children living in homeless shelters to offer them creative, interactive experiences. The activities served to provide personal contact with the children and to read with them; help the families participate in creative expressions of self; and provide visits with the larger community. These…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Children, Community Involvement, Cultural Activities
Sandel, Megan; Sharfstein, Joshua; Shaw, Randy – 1999
This report pulls together recent research from the Centers for Disease Control, leading medical and public health journals, and firsthand observations by pediatricians across the country on the link between affordable housing and children's health and outcomes. Also included are the most recent data from the America Housing Survey, the U.S.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asthma, Child Health, Children

Stronge, James H. – Journal of Children and Poverty, 1997
Describes progress made in recent years in addressing the educational needs of homeless children and youth in America and notes concerns that remain, including awareness and perceptions of homelessness, early childhood educational needs, interventions, interagency collaboration, and the need for comprehensive evaluations of educational efforts for…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Children, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs

Abebe, Behailu; Aptekar, Lewis – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1997
Presents taxonomy of hostility toward street children: (1) penal-instructive hostility based on punishing children for inappropriate behavior; (2) collective frustrated hostility based on ethnocentric social class attitudes toward the poor; and (3) cultural hostility, accounted for by differences attributed to sedentary and nomadic peripatetic…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anger, Child Labor, Child Welfare

Nelson, Kristine – Child Welfare, 1995
Notes that the 19th-century problem of street children parallels contemporary problems of homelessness, youth gangs, and violence. Suggests that past and present programs developed to deal with these problems have many similarities and that understanding the origins of both the problems and the child welfare response is crucial to avoiding past…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children, Economic Factors
Walsh, Mary E.; Buckley, Maureen A. – Elementary School Guidance & Counseling, 1994
Concentrates on homeless children's experience with schooling and suggests strategies and approaches school counselors can use to help these children. Through counseling, classroom guidance, consultations, and educational services coordination, counselors can address these children's needs. Adults must recognize that the children do not wish to be…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Childhood Needs, Children, Counseling Techniques
Boxill, Nancy A. – Child Care Information Exchange, 1994
Discusses the dilemmas that homeless children face and what day-care center staff can do to help meet the needs of such children, including providing consistency in homeless children's lives; providing basic necessities such as food, sleep, and privacy and showing a willingness to develop a normal relationship with homeless children. (MDM)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Needs, Children

Diversi, Marcelo; Moraes filho, Ney; Morelli, Margareth – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Notes that Brazilian street children are socially branded as criminals, limiting their opportunities to improve themselves and believe they can change their lives for the better. Draws on interviews with street children to provide a true picture of daily struggles and demonstrates ability and creativity in many situations. (LBT)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Child Labor, Children

Smollar, Jacqueline – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Reviews the history and causes of homeless children in the United States from early 19th century to the present. Explores four characteristics necessary for positive developmental pathways that are compromised for children who live on the street: sense of industry and competency, feeling connected to others and society, sense of control of one's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Competence

Hutz, Claudio S.; Koller, Silvia H. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Draws on research with Brazilian street children to present methodological and ethical challenges inherent in research with street children; provides suggestions for overcoming these challenges. Issues of concern include the following: definition and sampling, and lack of clarity in these areas; measurement aspects, including surveys,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Definitions

le Roux, Johann; Smith, Cheryl Sylvia – Adolescence, 1998
Attempts to identify the psychological characteristics that predispose certain children to run away and to survive, often for long periods, on the streets of South Africa. Examines vulnerability and resilience as well as social conditions that mediate the psychological predisposition to become a street child. (Author/GCP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children, Conditioning