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Student Services

In January of 2002, Congress authorized the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to help people experiencing homelessness. This federal law includes the Education of Homeless Children and Youth Program that entitles children who are homeless to a free, appropriate public education and requires schools to remove barriers to their enrollment, attendance, and success in school. This Act protects all students who do not have a fixed, regular and adequate residence, such as students living in the following situations:

  • runaway/homeless youth shelters (even if parents invite the youth home);
  • hotels or motels;
  • shelters, including domestic violence shelters;
  • transitional housing shelters;
  • cars, abandoned buildings parks, the streets or other public spaces;
  • campgrounds or inadequate trailer homes;
  • abandoned in a hospital;
  • doubled-up housing with other families or friends due to hardship;

 

CCS Mckinney-Vento Data

Number of CCS Students Identified

  • 2022-2023 - 410
  • 2023-2024 - 393
  • 2024-2025 - 468

In 2024-2025, 64 students were unaccompanied homeless youth and 59 individuals were younger siblings not enrolled in school.

Click the link for more information about Parent and Youth Rights under the McKinney Vento Law.

Additional Information:

  • North Carolina Homeless Education Program
  • If you are struggling with a housing crisis (i.e., you live in a motel or shelter, are living in someone else's home, on the street, etc.), please contact your School Social Worker or

CCS Liaison, Sandy Hamrick at 704-476-8000 or Email address: smhamrick@clevelandcountyschools.org

Lisa Phillips, State Coordinator for Homeless Education
SERVE Center at UNCG
Website: https://hepnc.uncg.edu

MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT (MTSS) K-12

  • Interdisciplinary team gives attention to the general education pool of at-risk students
  • Coordinates assessment of needs of at-risk students
  • Recommends interventions to referring teacher
  • Refers to school based services, including exceptional children's program
  • Manages Section 504 eligibility
  • Refers to community based services
  • Links to daily mentoring
  • Coordinates case management