The Union City Area School District is committed to support our students and families experiencing homelessness and to our students are in foster care. Our district has developed policies for supporting students in both of these situations to ensure educational stability.

Policy #251 specifically cites our District's policies and procedures for supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness, Foster Care or Other Educational Instability. Policy #255 details, more specifically, our District's policies and procedures for ensuring Educational Stability for Children in Foster Care.

The graphic below is a helpful way to understand the definition of homelessness under the McKinney-Vento Act, which is a federal law that ensures specific rights to students experiencing homelessness.

Students can also be considered unaccompanied youth, which also ensures them rights under the McKinney-Vento Act:

To better understand how to determine if you or someone you know may be experiencing homelessness, please visit the following resources and contact our McKinney-Vento liaison, Mrs. Stacey Dell, at Email Mrs. Stacey Dell.

• NCHE - Eligibility Flowchart

• NCHE - Determining Homelessness

• NCHE - Confirming Eligibility for McKinney-Vento Status

• McKinney-Vento Service Provider List

For a comprehensive list of some national resources that are available to students experiencing homelessness, please visit: https://www.counselingpsychology.org/homeless-college-resources/.

Our district has a number of programs and supports in place to support families and students experiencing homelessness. In addition to Title I Set-Aside funds, we work collaboratively with our team at the Union City Family Support Center, our United Way Community School, and other local shelters and agencies to support families. We are here for you! Please reach out to Stacey Dell (sdell@ucasd.org) with questions or needs!

This page was last updated on August 28, 2024.