The Orange County Department of Education last month unveiled an online training program for district educators to support homeless students.
The department’s homeless outreach program seeks to remove barriers for homeless students to attend school and to give them the educational and physical support they need to succeed.
Jeanne Awrey, coordinator of the program, said the online training was designed to help educators understand the ways they can support homeless students under the 1987 McKinney-Vento Act, which ensures that minors without a place to regularly sleep at night have equal access to free public education.
“We want to make sure educators have the tools they need to identify and support students experiencing homelessness,” she said in a Jan. 30 statement….