McKinney Vento Homeless Act
PSPA Contact:
Audrey Darges, School Counselor
acarlyle@pinespringsprep.org
The McKinney-Vento Act is a federal law passed to help families who are homeless keep their children in school.
Definition of homelessness—The term “homeless children and youth” means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and can include the following situations:
- Living with a friend, relative or someone else because they lost their home
- Staying in a motel or hotel
- Living in an emergency or transitional shelter or domestic violence shelter
- Staying in substandard housing
- Living in a car, park or public place, abandoned building or bus station
- Living in a campground or an inadequate trailer home
- Abandoned in a hospital
- Living in a runaway or homeless youth shelter
McKinney Vento Definition & Eligibility
North Carolina Homeless Education Website
Parent/Unaccompanied Youth Rights
NCHE North Carolina Homeless Data
Questions and/or additional information related to McKinney-Vento may be directed to Pine Springs Prep’s McKinney-Vento liaison:
NC State Coordinator’s name and phone number: Lisa Phillips lphillip@serve.org
