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
- 2021-2022 - 349
- 2022-2023 - 410
- 2023-2024 - 393
In 2023-2024, 49 students were unaccompanied homeless youth and 44 individuals were younger siblings not enrolled in school.
Additional Information:
- Unaccompanied Youth
- 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