Education Information and Help
Homeless education contact:
Gerard Egan
Homeless Liaison
jerry.egan@pennmanor.net
(717) 872-9500
Loft Community Partnership – food and clothing assistance
Homeless Education Information
Penn Manor SD School Board Policy 251 – Homeless Students
Homeless – McKinney Vento Homeless Act
Homeless students are defined as individuals lacking a fixed, regular and nighttime residence, including students living under the following conditions:
- 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.
- 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.
- Children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations or similar settings.
- “Migratory children” who qualify as homeless under federal law because they 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.
- “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.