Homeless Info
The law requires local districts, community schools and other educational agencies to designate an appropriate staff person as a local liaison for homeless children. United Local School District has designated Mary Alice Sigler as the homeless liaison.
WHO IS HOMELESS?
The term “homeless children and youth” means individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence and includes the following:
1. Children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative accommodations; are living. In emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement.
2. 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.
3. Children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings.
4. Migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described above.
If you or someone you know is homeless please contact:
Mary Alice Sigler
Special Education Director
330-223-2825.