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National Center for Homeless Education, 2022
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) addresses the specific and urgent needs of children and youth experiencing homelessness, in light of the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the purposes of identifying children and youth experiencing homelessness and enabling them to attend school and participate fully in school…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Federal Aid, Pandemics, COVID-19
Jinhee Kim – Action in Teacher Education, 2024
Home is often considered the exact opposite of homelessness, implying a physical shelter. However, scholars argue that home holds various meanings. Within the curriculum, home often serves as the foundation for teaching children about their social worlds. This study examines how elementary school teachers, who were taking a course in a master's…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Housing, Social Influences, Elementary School Teachers
Emmy Weatherill; Su Lyn Corcoran; Shuang Yin Cheryl Ng – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
The 2017 general comment (GC21) to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on children in street situations, provides a framework of legal guidance for governments developing policies aimed at protecting street-connected children and sets up the rationale for more awareness raising and public education to counter negative…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Children, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role
Sekerci, Reyhan; Karatas, Süleyman; Güven, Beyhan; Demir, Levent; Güven, Alper – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2021
Data mining in education predictions are made about other groups based on the big data of education. However, the extent to which training data can be accessed is relative. A group that can be described as missing data is children living or working on the street. For this reason this study aimed to deal with children working or living on the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Homeless People, Children, Social Problems
Crawford, Rachel; Kyakuwa, Fred; Walker, Katharine – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2023
A 10 week supportive arts program was conducted in Jinja, Uganda via the collaboration between a local nongovernmental organization, a Ugandan artist, and two art therapists from the United States. The artist facilitated weekly artmaking sessions for former unhoused youth being served by the organization, as well as engaged in weekly virtual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artists, Art Therapy, Allied Health Personnel
National Center for Homeless Education, 2022
For youth separated from their parents or guardians because of a disaster, school provides a stable and secure environment, offering structure and supports to help them overcome the trauma they have experienced and regain their academic, social, and emotional footing. Therefore, schools and school districts or local educational agencies (LEAs) and…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Natural Disasters, Homeless People, Federal Legislation
Ashton, Valerie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Child and youth homelessness is a complex topic area for researchers. There are many facets to the homelessness phenomenon, especially among children and youth. Yet, over the past decade, this topic area has created a research and practicum platform for researchers and actors and followers who are passionate and interested in exploring this social…
Descriptors: Youth, Homeless People, Academic Achievement, Leaders
Edwards, Tiffany G. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The number of homeless children and youth in the United States is on the rise (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2016). Between 2016 and 2017 in the Los Angeles County Homeless Count, there was a 41% increase in the number of homeless minors (The Los Angeles Service Authority, 2017). Education is key to bringing people out of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Children, Youth, Educational Needs
Mevawalla, Zinnia; Cologon, Kathy; Hayden, Jacqueline; Hadley, Fay – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2021
The words "behaviour" and "resistance" often conjure up fear-invoking images that prevent us from reflecting on what it is that we, as educators, understand behaviour to mean. In this article, we use resistance theory to rethink behaviour as communication by counter-storying one observation of resistance involving children and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resistance (Psychology), Theories, Homeless People
Julien, Gabriel – Educational Research and Reviews, 2022
Street children: who are they? Why are they homeless? How do they actually live on the streets? What quality of life do they enjoy? What are the characteristics of these children? These questions appear to be simple, but the answers are so very complex. Very often the public lacks proper information about these children and they instinctively…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Children, Quality of Life, Individual Characteristics
Jambunathan, Saigeetha; Jayaraman, J. D. – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2019
Street children are defined as, "those for whom the street more than their real family has become their real home, a situation in which there is no protection, supervision or direction from responsible adults" (Ennew, 1994, p. 15). The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the perception of self-competence and social acceptance of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Competence, Peer Acceptance, Homeless People
Herbers, Janette E.; Cutuli, J. J.; Keane, Joanna N.; Leonard, Jake A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
School districts and other service providers are increasingly aware of the substantial mental health needs of students experiencing family homelessness. Past findings are mixed regarding whether homelessness conveys unique risk beyond the risks associated with extreme poverty. With prospective longitudinal data on homelessness experiences across…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Homeless People, Early Experience
Edmonds, Ruth; Ochaya, Alfred; Sansom, Nicola – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This article explores the role resilience processes play in education and well-being outcomes for street-connected children. It draws on research and practice undertaken as part of the Building with Bamboo Programme (BwB) on resilience. BwB investigated the forms a resilience-based approach might usefully take in practice, the effect this has on…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Well Being, Foreign Countries, Homeless People
National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE, 2017
Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, reauthorized in 2015 by Title IX, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act, guarantees educational rights and supports for students experiencing homelessness. This brief summarizes the key provisions of the McKinney-Vento Act related to the identification of children and youth…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Homeless People, Children, Youth
Fischer, Matthias; Welzel-Breuer, Manuela – Online Submission, 2021
Worldwide, there are millions of children and youth living on the streets. While this is accepted as a sad reality when it comes to developing countries, many people are unaware that street youth also exist in Western countries, such as Germany. In both developing and developed countries young people on the streets face a plethora of challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Runaways, Homeless People, Urban Schools