If you are experiencing homelessness, there are resources that can be
provided to you. Please visit with your campus counselor for specific
supplemental resources available to students that are identified as
eligible for McKinney-Vento Services.
Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act,
reauthorized by Title X, Part C, of the No Child Left Behind Act,
ensures educational rights and protections for children and youth
experiencing homelessness. Homelessness is a lack of permanent
housing resulting from extreme poverty, or, in the case of
unaccompanied youth, the lack of a safe and stable living
environment.
The term “homeless children and youth”—
(A) Means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate
nighttime residence …; and
(B) Includes—
(i) 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 or are abandoned in hospitals.
 
(ii) 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 … 
(iii) children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces,
abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or
similar settings; and 
(iv) migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purposes of
this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described
in clauses (i) through (iii).
The McKinney-Vento Liaison for Lampasas ISD is Dana Holcomb,
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction. If you have any
questions or concerns, please contact him at holcombd@lisdtx.org or
at 512-556-6224