The Rhode Island Department of Education has adopted Section 725(2) of McKinney-Vento Education of Homeless Children and Youth Act regarding the definition of homeless children and youth:

Individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence or have a primary nighttime residence in a supervised, publicly or privately, operated shelter for temporary accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill), an institution providing temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or a public or private place not designated for, ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodations for human beings.

You could qualify for this act.

Know your rights - School House Connection

Are you staying in temporary housing?
Do you want your children to stay at their current school?
Are you having trouble enrolling your children in school, or getting them there?

If you are staying temporarily with someone else because you lost your housing, or staying in a motel, campground, shelter, or in an outside or inadequate place, you and your children have special rights at school.

Those rights include:

Staying in the same school even if you move, and receiving transportation to that school, as long as it is in the student’s best interest

Enrolling in school immediately without the documents schools usually require

Receiving free school meals

Getting help with school supplies and other needs

Extra support for youth who are on their own

Help connecting young children with early childhood services

Contact Middletown’s McKinney-Vento Liaison to find out if you qualify for help.  Megan Mainzer mmainzer@mpsri.net

• Go to https://mckinney-vento.org/

• Click on Register at the top right.

  • Registration Video - Click here to access and get the link

• Complete the registration form.

• In order to now log into the website your will need to click on Lost Password

• You will receive an email prompt to reset your password.

• Once reset, you can log in to the site with your username and new password.

• You will see the course listed based on your role.

• Follow all the course prompts to complete the course.

• After you complete the Post Quiz you will receive a Certificate that you will want to download.

• Teachers can click here if you have not already signed up for this activity in the My Learning Plan Catalog in order to receive PLUs.

Megan Mainzer
Director of Family Support/McKinney Vento Liaison
Phone: 401-849-2122, ext. 2140
Email: mmainzer@mpsri.net

Natalia Silva Patterson
District Translator
Phone: 401-849-2122, ext. 2174
Email: nsilvapatterson@mpsri.net