ARCHIVED WEBINAR: Using Student Homelessness Data to Advocate on Behalf of Children and Families
If you missed our November webinar, Using Student Homelessness Data to Advocate on Behalf of Children and Families, the recording is now available!
The story of California’s homeless students is largely a hidden one—many are doubled up with family and friends, while others live in shelters.
New data, however, show the extent of homelessness of California’s pre-K-12 students enrolled in public schools. Nearly 270,000 public school students in the state were homeless at some point in the 2012-2013 school year. That equates to about 4% of all California’s public school students, double the national average. The data, from the California Homeless Youth Project and available only on kidsdata.org, are sorted by county, school district and legislative district. The data include information by grade level and nighttime residence.
In this webinar, you’ll learn more about this important new dataset and how to use it in your work.
Presenters include:
Shahera Hyatt, MSW, Project Director, California Homeless Youth Project
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Patricia Julianelle, JD, Director of State Projects and Legal Affairs, National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
See presentation
Regan Foust, PhD, Data Manager, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
Brenda Dowdy, Homeless Education Program Specialist, San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools
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RELATED CONTENT:
See the data:
Homeless Public School Students
Learn more about the scope of student homelessness:
Issue Brief: California’s Homeless Students: A Growing Population (PDF)
California Homeless Youth Project
Posted by Barbara Feder Ostrov
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