McKinney-Vento Liaison Finder
If you know a student who may be experiencing homelessness, contact your local McKinney-Vento liaison. Your liaison can help with enrollment, transportation, free school meals, and other resources.
Who is considered homeless?
Title IX, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act defines homelessness as living in the following places due to a lack of a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence:
- Emergency or transitional shelter
- Motel, hotel, or campground due to lack of an adequate alternative
- Car, park, public place, bus or train station, or abandoned building
- Doubled-up with relatives or friends due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason
- In the above conditions and is a migratory child or youth
- Further descriptions of nighttime residence
This definition of homelessness applies to children and youth with:
- Uncertain housing
- A temporary address
- No permanent physical address
Children and youth living in these settings meet criteria for the McKinney-Vento definition of homelessness and have certain educational rights.
