Batavia Student Amy Whiting Wins Hunger Awareness Poster Contest
Last week, the Kane County Regional Office of Education offered an opportunity for students to create a poster on homelessness and hunger awareness. The ROE received almost 20 submissions, and after a weekend of deliberation, picked the best candidate to represent National Homelessness and Hunger Awareness Week 2014.
Congrats to Amy Whiting, a junior in Bernice Schopf’s Industrial Education class at Batavia High School, for sharing your talent with the community! Please contact Ellen Kamps at 630-444-3092 to claim your gift certificate.
To find out more information on these issues, visit National Center for Homeless Education at Serve.
The goal of the Kane County Homeless Education Program is to assist the Kane County School Districts by:
- Providing technical assistance
- Increase awareness of definition/rights of the homeless to school administrators, staff and other school district personnel
- Share best practices for the education of homeless children and youth
- Facilitate collaborations between schools, social service agencies (including Continuum of Care), shelters and community groups
- Assist districts to revise policies that create barriers for homeless students
- Assist districts with required data reporting
The federal McKinney-Vento Act requires school districts to be pro-active in finding homeless children who are not attending school and identifying which children and youth are homeless.
The Kane County ROE Equal Chance Program assists Kane County School Districts by:
- Training school staff, social service agency and community agency staff
- Providing outreach and outreach materials to schools and places that have a frequent in-flux of low income families
- Facilitating bimonthly parent meetings at shelters
- Collaborating with ROE Youth Outreach Officers and Safe Schools Facilitators
- Providing direct and supportive assistance to families/youth in need
This post was written by Ellen Kamps of the Kane County Regional Office of Education. For more information, visit the Kane County ROE website.
