The McKinney Vento Act provides certain rights for homeless students. They include waiving certain requirements, such as proof of residency when students are enrolling, and allowing categorical eligibility for certain services, such as free textbooks.
Click HERE to read the Homeless Students' Rights.

Homeless students are those who lack a fixed, regular, adequate nighttime residence. This includes students 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 campgrounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals. The definition includes migratory students who live in the aforementioned situations. Beginning Dec. 10, 2016, “those awaiting foster care placement” are not included in the definition.

For more information, please visit the  IDOE's McKinney-Vento: Homeless Children & Youth Program website.

State and Federal Resource Directory

• SchoolHouse Connection

• NAEHCY

• National Center for Homeless Education

Resources and Supports

• Homeless Students' Rights

• Indiana 211

• Homeless Initiative Program | HealthNet

• SNAP/Food Stamps for Unaccompanied Youth

• Indiana Education for Homeless Children & Youth Building Futures through Education