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The McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 is a United States federal law that provides federal money for homeless shelter programs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the first significant federal legislative response to homelessness, [ 3 ] and was passed by the 100th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 22 ...
PATH building, Los Angeles. Created under the McKinney-Vento Act, The PATH (Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness) Program, is a formula grant program that funds the 50 States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and four U.S. Territories to support service delivery to individuals with serious mental illnesses, as well as individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders ...
Programs must identify and provide services to homeless children of all ages within a reasonable period. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 2001 [16] also requires access to early childhood education such as Head Start for homeless children and families.
When state legislators last met in 2021, children were sleeping in state offices in record numbers — many with serious, complex needs — because there were not enough appropriate foster care ...
The 5th Circuit Court has blocked a judge's order fining Texas $100,000 per day for failing to implement court-ordered fixes to its foster care system. Texas will not have to pay, for now, $100K ...
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services offers a deep set of data on the foster care system, but those numbers only provide a glimpse into the struggles children face in the state ...
The 1987 McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act: A change created by the amendments of 1992 was the creation of the Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Support program (or ACCESS); this program was created in order to assist the homeless people who had both serious mental illness issues, as well as substance abuse problems and ...
Advocates say better accounting of deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the state’s care and better access to translators are needed. For deaf children in Texas foster care, limited ...