Homeless Education
Resources
There are programs and services available to homeless students and families.
A resource guide can be downloaded or viewed on the website. In addition, you can download this local resource guide.
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Visit the Texas Homeless Education Office.
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To find out more, please email TCISD social worker Rita Baldwin or call her at (409) 916-0845.
COVID-19 FAQ: Guidance for Students Experiencing Homelessness
TEA released information regarding homelessness during the pandemic.
Read it HERE
Who is homeless? (Sec. 725)
The term “homeless children and youth”—
(A) means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence …; and
(B) includes—
(i) children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement;
(ii) children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings …
(iii) children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and
(iv) migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii).