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=__**Welcome to Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness (ECYEH) wiki**__=

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This wiki space was created to provide an all inclusive resource for the liaison and families of student's experiencing homelessness in the eight counties Region 3 ECYEH serves. This includes 48 school districts and community programs that we work in collaboration with. This is being funded by the ARRA grant received funding year 2009-2010. This program is federally funded.

=A **main goal** of Educating Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness (ECYEH) is:= to ensure that all children and youth experiencing homelessness enroll, participate, and have the opportunity to succeed in school; ensure children and youth experiencing homelessness receive a free and appropriate public education on an equal basis with all other children in the state; and eliminate and/or reduce educational barriers through the use of local "best practices" and the authorized activities of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act.

Program Objectives:

 * reduce the disruption in the educational lives of children and youth experiencing homelessness
 * increase awareness about the nature and extent of the problems children and youth experiencing homelessness have enrolling in and gaining access to educational programs and services; explain laws and policies already in place, which overcome these barriers
 * build on laws and policies already in place, which overcome these barriers
 * build the capacity of others to assist identifying, enrolling, and ensuring the educational success of homeless children and youth
 * provide opportunities to collaborate with other statewide initiatives such as special education, Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTII), Early Childhood, and Title I to improve academic achievement

Local Educational Agency (LEA) Homeless Liaisons have been in place in the Commonwealth since 1989. Each of the **499 school districts, 29 intermediate units, 20 comprehensive career and technical centers, and 175 charter/cyber schools** can be in a position to provide valuable data. A full directory of all liaisons is available online at http://homeless.center-school.org/directory to any interested party; contact information is provided to facilitate coordination of services for students experiencing homeless within and between schools and other agencies working with these youth.

Statewide Resources: the **Center for Schools and Communities of the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit** can be reached at 717-763-1661 by school districts, shelters and agencies for information and resources to meet the needs of homeless children and youth. The following **Pennsylvania Department of Education websites** can also provide information. []

=**Contact information:**= =**Sonia Pitzi**=

office: 717-718-5944 Email: magosnell@iu12.org
 * Regional Coordinator**
 * York Learning Center 300 East Seventh Avenue, Suite 600 ||
 * York, PA 17404 ||
 * Office: 717-718-5924 ||
 * Email: slpitzi@iu12.org ||
 * Missy Gosnell**
 * Program Liaison Homeless/POC Foster Care**