Title IX – McKinney-Vento Program

The primary goal of the Terrebonne Parish Schools McKinney-Vento Program is to ensure homeless/transitional students stay in school by removing barriers to attendance.
 

This is done by the following:

• Providing school supplies/backpacks
• Providing school uniforms
• Providing after school tutoring
• Payment of school fees
• Documentation (birth certificates, immunization records, etc.)
• Referral to community resources for student and their families
• Free lunch
• Transportation
• Case Management

A student without a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence is homeless. The definition does not change whether the student is living with a parent or is separated from parents. Under the McKinney-Vento Act, a student is homeless if he/she has a primary residence that is any of the following:

• Families doubled-up with friends or family, this includes families in which children and parents are in separate places
• Hotels or motels
• Families/individuals living in parks or camping areas
• Shelter/transitional living (i.e. disaster, domestic violence, homeless)
• Displaced due to natural disaster, lack of financial resources, etc.
• Vehicles or on the street
• Runaway or throwaway teens; abandoned children
• Families residing in sub-standard housing in need of great repair or with no utilities (i.e. running water, electricity)