Services for School Districts

Project TEACH ensures that students living in homeless situations succeed through collaborative efforts with school districts. Each school district is required to designate a liaison for children experiencing homelessness in compliance with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Improvements Assistance Act. As a county office program, Project TEACH provides assistance to school districts in order to expand and sustain services for children as follows:

• Encourages and assists school districts to establish a program or services
  
  
• Provides support to the liaison and/or designated contact person(s)
  
  
• Resolves disputes regarding the educational placement of children experiencing homelessness
  
  
• Increases awareness and compliance with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Improvements Assistance Act through collaboration with districts, shelter agencies, community agencies, and parents
  
  
• Collects data from school districts on the number of children experiencing homelessness in Sacramento County
  
  
• Reports data to the California Department of Education and the Sacramento County Children’s Coalition (published in the Sacramento County Children’s Report Card)
  
  
• Local educational liaison representative at interagency forums
  
  
• Coordinates the Sacramento County Task Force for the Education of Homeless Children to provide a forum for school districts and agencies to engage in problem solving