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Homeless Services

Pennsylvania's Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness (Pennsylvania ECYEH) Program was established to make sure homeless youth have access to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) while removing barriers that homeless children face.

View our ECYEH Presentation (PDF) about the basics of homelessness and youth.
 

Craig Reichl is the Director of Student & Community Services and serves as the appointed homeless liaison. As a school district, our job is to ensure that our students who are considered homeless are enrolled immediately, receive transportation as appropriate, and are referred to services as needed.

Contact Craig at reichlc@eastonsd.org or (610) 250-2400 x35031.

 

View an example of the official letter that families will receive (PDF) if they are identified as receiving supports under McKinney-Vento. If you or any Easton family are experiencing the following living conditions, you may qualify to receive certain protections and support under the McKinney-Vento Act:

  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 adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals;
  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 under federal law because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii) above. The term "migratory children" means children who are (or whose parent(s) or spouse(s) are) migratory agricultural workers, including migratory dairy workers or migratory fishermen, and who have moved from one school district to another in the preceding 36 months, in order to obtain (or accompany such parents or spouses in order to obtain) temporary or seasonal employment in agricultural or fishing work; and,
  5. "Unaccompanied homeless youth" including any child who is "not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian." This includes youth who have run away from home, been thrown out of their home, been abandoned by parents or guardians, or separated from their parents for any other reason.

More information and details can be found by reviewing the Education for Homeless Student Act.