A note to the casual browser: Information on this and related pages is intended for the staff and clients of family residential service providers in Allegheny County affiliated with the Homeless Children's Education Fund. You might well, however, find the sections entitled "Best Practices" and "Staff Workshops" of interest.

HCEF EVENTS BILLBOARD

Upcoming training session: Psychologist Kristie Guthrie
on Oppositional Defiant Disorder
HCEF office 9:00 a.m., Friday September 17, 2010

See photos from August 6th Mini-Grant Distribution

See the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth's (NAEHCY) Frequently Asked Questions on the Education Rights of Children and Youth in Homeless Situations – Updated November 2009 (a .pdf document that can be downloaded and/or printed), a to-the-point outlining of each of these rights.
The document includes a detailed index to each unique Question.
The individual questions/responses are to be hyperlinked for quick access here.

Read on line or download the National Center for Children in Poverty's December 2009 paper, Ten Important Questions About Child Poverty and Family Economic Hardship.

Links to Pittsburgh Public Schools websites of interest:
Home page    Schools
Community Resource Guide    Parents
Curriculum and Instruction    Online Parent Portal

Link to National Center for Homeless Education
Posters of parents' and student's rights and school districts' obligations
Parent's poster    Student's poster
Posters may be reproduced. Also available in Spanish.

Direct links to a sample of the mapping of neighborhood service assets
and of the services these organizations can provide

Access   Grolier On-line's After School Fun and Learning Center
user name: hcef1 – password: grolier
and
Access Scholastic's BookFlix
pairing classic storybooks with related nonfiction – grades Pre-K - 3
user name: hcef – password: bookflix
Letter to parents about BookFlix

8/27/10)

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