This resource (PDF, 11 pages) supports homeless education liaisons and other local education agency (LEA) stakeholders in overseeing the resolution of disputes under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. The tool translates statutory requirements into actionable, step-by-step guidance for LEAs navigating an active dispute. The resource includes three checklists that, together, will help LEAs meet McKinney-Vento requirements while ensuring that children and youth experiencing homelessness receive the rights, services, and support to which they are entitled through the dispute process. Learn more. 

This paper (PDF, 32 pages) introduces behavioral health practitioners and policymakers to selected public child- and family-serving systems. It describes the population of youth with unmet behavioral health needs; reviews the child welfare, juvenile justice, intellectual and/or developmental disability, education, and housing/homelessness prevention systems in brief; and identifies opportunities to build and maintain systems and support collaboration to prevent multisystem involvement and keep children and families in their homes and communities. Learn more (PDF, 32 pages). 

This guide provides K–12 school safety decision-makers with bomb threat guidance related to prethreat preparation, threat assessment considerations, staff response guidelines, and evacuation and shelter-in-place considerations. This document is designed to be printed on both sides and folded into four sections. Learn more.