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Homeless Education |
Federal law guarantees all children a place in school, but ensuring that homeless students have access to all school resources and services poses challenges to states, school districts, and families. EDC is assisting state homeless education coordinators who work to ensure adequate schooling for the nation's estimated 1 million homeless children. Read a feature article about EDC’s work with homeless children. Safe Havens: School, Community, and the Education of Youth and Children Experiencing Homelessness is a guide from EDC that offers practical and creative strategies for ensuring equal access to quality education for students experiencing homelessness. Download a copy of this publication (PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat). |
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Criminal Justice System |
EDC’s Center for Children & Families (CC&F), in partnership with Aid to Incarcerated Mothers (AIM), is training a cadre of mentors to support children in Massachusetts who have a parent in a state or federal prison. Training sessions provide participants with information about effective mentoring and issues facing the children, and offer them specialized support. Read a feature article about the project. EDC’s Cleveland office manages a series of projects that provides services to adjudicated youth in Ohio and to organizations serving that population. For example, the VOICES for Youth project designs and delivers comprehensive training for volunteers from faith-based organizations who are serving as mentors to youth offenders. Read an article about the VOICES project. |
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Drop Out Prevention for Students with Disabilities |
Nationwide students with disabilities drop out of high school at twice the rate of their nondisabled peers. In the Good High Schools project, EDC employs quantitative and qualitative research methods to study three urban high schools that demonstrate the best combination of academic performance and social outcomes for students with disabilities. The project is using the data to come up with best practices to ensure that students with disabilities succeed. Read an article from Mosaic about this project. EDC is a partner in the National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD), which works to support state and local education agencies in increasing rates of school completion for students with disabilities. The center also serves as a resource for information, technical assistance, and dropout prevention strategies for teachers, administrators, families, policymakers, and other practitioners. Visit the NDPC-SD Web site. |
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Natural Disaster Response |
In the aftermath of last year's hurricane devastation, EDC's Health and Human Development Programs (HHD) compiled a list of Web based resources for families, schools, and health and safety professionals impacted by the storm. Visit the resource section of the HHD Web site. HHD is helping schools prevent, prepare for, and respond to crisis situations. Read a feature article about this work. |
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Children of Migrant Workers |
Arranging affordable, quality child care is essential, but very difficult for most migrant families, who need programs that have flexible schedules and locations. EDC’s report, Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and Child Care Partnerships, examines priority areas of concern for these families and their children. Download a copy of Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and Child Care Partnerships (PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat). |
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Young People with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties |
Many young people with serious mental disorders “age out” of youth service programs when they turn 18. While many state agencies offer transitional programs, such as vocational training or life skills education, services are often not integrated or responsive to young people’s needs. To create a more effective system, EDC studied the State of New York’s transition services and made recommendations for improvement. Read a feature article about the study. |
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