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Links important education and foster care data and discusses three keys to improving educational outcomes:  champions, leadership, and collaboration.

Vulnerable Populations

Portrays the challenges for youth in foster care to “be seen” at school and highlights how educators can support their academic achievement.  It features video clips of youth narrating their stories.

Vulnerable Populations

Features an extensive series of briefs pertaining to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, including best practices in homeless education, best practices in interagency collaboration, and three briefs focusing on children and families displaced by disaster.

Vulnerable Populations

Offers a three-tiered approach to implementing effective programs for homeless students for administrators at the state, district and individual school levels about two critical components: 1) a comprehensive needs assessment, and 2) effective program evaluation.  

Vulnerable Populations

Gives practical suggestions to school leaders or creating an inclusive school climate, and for preventing and addressing common school problems and challenges.

Vulnerable Populations

Examines the experiences of LGBT students nationally and looks at negative indicators affecting these students, as well as potential benefits of positive resources such as Gay-Straight Alliances, inclusive curricula, supportive adults, and anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies.

Vulnerable Populations

Highlights practices focused on improving educational continuity and school stability for children and youth in care. The report describes the strategies, practices, and tools showing the greatest potential for effecting systems improvement, along with key insights and lessons learned.

Vulnerable Populations

Provides support to Local Health Departments' planning and preparedness activities by providing a filter, or guide, for the extensive array of existing resources, templates, PowerPoint presentations, memorandums of understanding and case studies in North Carolina.

Vulnerable Populations

Highlights important findings about the prevalence of children experiencing risk factors in the United States. These findings were produced with the Young Child Risk Calculator, a tool of the National Center for Children in Poverty.

Vulnerable Populations

Includes comprehensive, intensive, community-based programs to promote building resiliency and protective factors in youth, families, and communities.

Vulnerable Populations

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