This toolbox is designed to help school districts implement the McKinney-Vento Act fully, so they can address the needs of children and youth experiencing homelessness on a daily basis and in times of disaster. The toolbox contains information and practical lessons learned and resources developed during the recovery process following the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes.
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This July 2010 brief from Save the Children provides a state-by-state assessment on four measures of caring for children in the wake of a disaster: Does the state require licensed child care facilities to: 1) have a plan for evacuating kids in child care; 2) have a written plan to notify parents of an emergency and reunite them with their kids; and 3) have a written plan that accounts for kids with special needs; and 4) Does the state require all schools to have a disaster plan that accounts for multiple hazards?
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Community Voice Mail provides free voicemail numbers to disaster victims.
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This handbook series explains how the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act applies to students displaced by disaster and how the Act can assist these students and their families. Each handbook in the series targets information to either parents of displaced children, relief agencies, or educators.
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This brief series discusses important issues related to enrolling and serving students displaced by disaster.
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In Their Own Words provides readers with a window into the daily challenges and triumphs of the schools and students affected by August 2005's Hurricane Katrina. In Their Own Words is, in large part, a first-person account of the hurricane’s effects on education on the Gulf Coast during the few weeks and months after landfall and since. It is the voices of the students and the school, district, and relief agency staff who were closest to the challenges that resulted from the hurricane.
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