Homeless Students

 

For additional information, check out the Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness tab and the McKinney-Vento Act.

 

Anyone who, due to a lack of housing, lives:

• In emergency or transitional shelters
• In motels, hotels, campgrounds, abandoned in hospitals, awaiting foster care
• In cars, parks, public places, bus or train stations, abandoned buildings (living on the street)
• Doubled up with relatives or friends
• Migratory children living in these conditions
• Students moving from home to home

What can you do if:

You suspect or become aware a student may be homeless?

• Consult with the Home and School Visitor
• Call Student Services at 814-231-10-11 ext 6977

You have a homeless student in your class who seems to be in need of some specific school or personal items to be purchase?  

• Email the Home and School Visitor - ces31@scasd.org

Local Housing/Shelter Assistance 

• Housing Transitions: 814-237-4863
  • Centre County Housing Case Manager: 814-237-1944
• Centre County Centre Safe: 814-234-5050 
  • Centre Safe empowers survivors of sexual violence, relationship violence, and stalking and to work toward the elimination of such violence.
  • While Centre Safe began as an agency by women, for women, they have been doing with and for all survivors, and they are here for victims and survivors of all identities.
• Centre County Youth Service Bureau: 814-237-5731
• YSB's Burrowes Street Youth Haven: 814-234-2100
  • Ages 12-17 who are homeless, runaway, or at risk of running away or becoming homeless due to difficulties within their homes.
• YSB's Stormbreak: 814-234-7929
  • Provides young women ages 12-19 who are involved with the child dependency or delinquency system with a safe, structured, and nurturing environment to learn and grow. 
• YSB’s Supervised Independent Living Program:  814-234-0803 
  • Provides residential support to youth ages 16-21 who are involved with the child dependency or delinquency system. 

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