West Valley School District #208 Special Services 1000 South 72nd Avenue Yakima, WA 98908
Telephone: 509.965.2080 Fax: 509.965.2127

 

Welcome to the Web Page for the West Valley School District Special Services Department

This page gives you basic information about the education of homeless youth.

 

Who is homeless?
(McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 2001 . Title X, Part C of the No Child Left Behind Act . 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 similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due 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 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).

 

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