Many students and educators will return to school this year with anxiety and fear about the future — concerns resulting from ongoing trends and recent events, including the continuing pandemic, racially discriminatory book bans and gag orders, increasing discrimination against LGBTQᐩ people, the rising toll of gun violence, and the…

Hidden Homelessness: Youth Voices is a youth storytelling series developed by SchoolHouse Connection that highlights the often overlooked and unseen experiences that define child and youth homelessness. Under the education subtitle of federal law (the McKinney-Vento Act), the definition of homelessness includes common situations for…

Hidden Homelessness: Youth Voices is a youth storytelling series developed by SchoolHouse Connection that highlights the often overlooked and unseen experiences that define child and youth homelessness. Under the education subtitle of federal law (the McKinney-Vento Act), the definition of homelessness includes common situations for families and youth experiencing homelessness…

Hidden Homelessness: Youth Voices is a youth storytelling series developed by SchoolHouse Connection that highlights the often overlooked and unseen experiences that define child and youth homelessness. Under the education subtitle of federal law (the McKinney-Vento Act), the definition of homelessness includes common situations for families and youth experiencing homelessness…

Hidden Homelessness: Youth Voices is a youth storytelling series developed by SchoolHouse Connection that highlights the often overlooked and unseen experiences that define child and youth homelessness. …

My name is Rebecca, and I am a survivor of homelessness. If it wasn’t for my educators and school counselor noticing the signs and the changes in my behavior at the age of 15, I may not be sitting here with you all today. Contrary to popular belief, young people…

“Hidden Homelessness: Why Child, Youth, and Family homelessness is the Crisis We Cannot Ignore” is a series developed by SchoolHouse Connection featuring stories and voices that highlight the long-term impacts of child, youth, and family homelessness. From this first-person storytelling, we learn the ways homelessness underlies and intersects with other…

November is Children’s Grief Awareness Month and includes National Homelessness and Hunger Awareness Week — issues that are tragically intertwined, now more than ever. Consider: More than 140,000 children in the United States have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to the COVID-19 pandemic — that is one out of…

This blog is originally published on The Education’s Trust website. See the original post here. While COVID-19 has disrupted the lives of all students and their families, those experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity are particularly vulnerable. Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, public schools identified 1.4 million homeless children and youth…