Making It Crystal Clear: Educating Schools and the Community about McKinney-Vento

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Making It Crystal Clear Educating Schools and
the Community about McKinney-Vento

• Welcome!
• Please take a packet of information. We will
  begin at 1030.

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Overview Action Plans

• School Staff Reaching and Teaching 20 minutes
• Service Providers Educating and Collaborating
  20 minutes
• Parents and Students Working Together 10
  minutes
• Community Tips for Communicating with the
  Public 10 minutes

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Reaching and Teaching School Staff

• Who is your audience and what do they need to
  know?
• Teachers
• Student services staff
• Administrators
• Secretaries and enrollment offices
• Special Education
• Cafeteria Staff

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Reaching and Teaching Teachers Strategies

• Powerpoint presentation
• Website information www.janesville.k12.wi.us/home
  less
• Poverty training
• Special Education meetings
• Teaching tips
• Brochures
• Photostory

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• PhotoStory movie

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Reaching and Teaching Student Services Staff

• Who provides services to homeless students in
  your district?
• Your direct service provider should know more
  detailed information about McKinney-Vento.
• Strategies phone consultations, monthly
  meetings, periodic trainings and website support.

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Reaching and Teaching Secretaries and Enrollment
Personnel

• How does your district identify incoming homeless
  students?
• Who is likely to notice two unrelated students
  sharing an address?
• Strategies Brochure, emails, enrollment tips
  from NCHE at serve.org, meetings with enrollment
  personnel, phone consults.

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Educating and Collaborating with Service Providers

• Potential Partners
• Coalitions to End Homelessness
• Housing Coalitions
• Early Childhood Coalitions
• Adult Education Groups
• Latino Service Providers
• United Way Member Agencies
• City and County Human Services
• Crisis Hotlines
• Mental Health Advocacy Organizations or
  Coalitions

• Join Existing Coalitions.
• Visit your service providers.
• Build Relationships!

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Educating and Collaborating with Service
Providers Strategies

• Presentations at meetings
• Brochures
• Regular visits to shelters and transitional
  living programs to build relationships
• Website promotion and email lists
• Build your own coalition Example H.E.A.T

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Working Together with Parents and Students
Strategies

• Relationships are the key!
• Shelter and TLP program visits
• Welcome packet backpacks at enrollment
• Parent Newsletter Brochure
• Surveys and Links on Website
• NCHE video for parents at serve.org

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Tips for Working with the Media

• Answer the 5 Ws Why, Who, What, When , Where
  How
• Understand the tools
• Consider your audience
• Frame the issue and stay on message
• Dont use jargon
• Keep it Positive

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Media Toolkits Links Online

• Iowa Community Empowerment www.empowerment.state.
  ia.us/common/pdf/tool_kit/part_5.pdf
• National Association of Social Workers
  www.socialworkers.org/pressroom/mediaToolkit/defau
  lt.asp
• Colorado Nonprofit Association
  www.coloradononprofits.org/media20Toolkit.pdf

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Thanks for attendingMaking it Crystal Clear
Educating Schools and the Community about
McKinney-Vento

• Ann Forbeck, Homeless Education Program
  Coordinator for the School District of Janesville
• Please feel free to email me at
  aforbeck_at_janesville.k12.wi.us