For more information about your student(s) rights under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Act please contact:

The McKinney-Vento Act states that homeless children and youth are those that lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

A student is considered “homeless” if they lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, including:

• Sharing housing due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason.
• Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, camping grounds due to a lack of alternative, adequate accommodation.
• Living in emergency & transitional shelters.
• Living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, bus or train stations or similar situations.
• Migratory children living in the above situations.

Under the federal McKinney-Vento Act, children and youth in homeless situations have the right to:

• Enroll in school immediately, even if missing records and documents normally required for enrollment such as a birth certificate, proof of residence, previous school records or immunization / medical records.
• Enroll, attend classes, and participate fully in all school activities while the school gathers records.
• Attend either the local school or the “school of origin”, if this is in the best interest of the student. The “school of origin: is the school the child attended when he / she was permanently housed or the school in which the child was last enrolled.
• Receive transportation to and from the “school of origin” if in the best interest of the student.
• Have access to the same programs and services that are available to all other student.
• Free breakfast and lunch for the school year.

This program's purpose is to send home a supply of food every Friday with any child who feels/whose parent(s) feel this would be helpful. This process will be done in a confidential manner. The food products are simply placed in bags on their bus Friday afternoon for take home. Students no transported by bus or who would prefer, may pick their bag up at their respective schools.

You may opt in or opt out of this program at any time. For instance, if there is a loss of income in a home, you may contact one of the people noted below in person, via phone, note or email and the next week your child(ren) will receive a bag of food to take home from the school where they attend. The service will continue each week until you state you no longer wish to receive this support.

If you have questions about the program, please reach out to your school's nurse.

To Apply

If you feel this would help your family, please fill out this form and have your child bring it to the nurse or counselor listed above. You can fill out one form or send information to one location even if you have children in more than one school. You may also call or email the information.

If you are interested in learning more about End 68 Hours of Hunger, please visit the main organization's website at www.end68hoursofhunger.org.

If your family is able to help with a monetary donation, please make checks payable to ORCSD End 68 Hours of Hunger and send: c/o Doris Demers, SAU #5 36 Coe Dr. Durham NH 03824.

Thank you for your support!

Please visit our Free and reduced Meals page for more information.

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