The Beam Newsletter Archives

Fall 2009

What's Inside?: San Diego County Partnership Houses Homeless Families; NAEHCY Elections; 21st Annual Conference Recap; ARRA Funds Stimulate Innovative Transportation; Profile of a LeTendre Scholar; 22^nd Annual Conference in Houston

What's Inside?: Legislative Support; Zach’s Trek to Washington; 21^st Annual Conference; Youth Development Programs; New Renter Protections; NNSDO Supports NAEHCY with Donations; Recovery Funding Enhances Services for Homeless Children and Youth; LeTendre Scholar Profile; NAEHCY’s Revised Mission Statement

What's Inside?: Oregon Activity Association Expands Rights; Viewpoint on Definition Changes; Summary of HUD Definition of Homeless; Legacy Health Fund Project for Homeless Students in Vancouver, WA; More Than a Village; Law Firm Partnerships; Meet 21st Annual Conference Opening Session Presenter Chet Sisk; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?:The FAFSA and Access to Higher Education; Personality Traits Suited to Work with Students in Poverty; Effective Teachers of Homeless, Highly Mobile, and At-Risk Students; Unexpected Outcomes: Profile of a Scholar; Congress Considers Revised Definitions Bill; Homeless Education Funds in Stimulus Bill; Just Neighbors; Registration Open for all YEF Institute Audio conferences through July 2009; Translating Funding Into Programs; Submit a Proposal to Present at the 21st Annual NAEHCY conference; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: Annual Award winners; Changes in NAEHCY's board; An excerpt from Using What We Know, by Patricia Julianelle, NAEHCY counsel; REACHing out to incarcerated parents; NAEHCY's legislative support and work in the 2008 session; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: 20th Annual Conference; Casey Partnership and 3rd Annual Child Welfare Track; Housing Bill Offers Much Needed Funding; Day in the Life of a Homeless Student; Summer Nutrition Programs; Street Lawyer WIKI; Logic Models for Program Development; NAEHCY Honors Congressman George Miller; Homeless Definitions: Summer Update; Effective Teaching Study; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: Member Spotlight; College Goal Sunday; Legislation Support and Recommendations; NCHE Online Training; NCHE Networking Groups; Foreclosure Crisis; Canine Reading; Volcano, the Play; 20th Annual Conference

What's Inside?: Earned Income Tax Credits; Member Spotlight; Advocacy 101; Food Stamp Challenge; Mobile Outreach to Families with Young Homeless Children; PIT Count; DAY IN THE LIFE; 20th Annual Conference; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: From the President; Member Spotlight; Legislative Update; Congressional Testimony; Anchorage Homeless Policy; A Night to Remember; McKinney-Vento Eligibility; Child Well-Being; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: 19th Annual Conference Preview; President's Update; Art Works Literacy; Legislative Update; NAEHCY Elections; Web Logs on Homelessness; Back to School From NCHE; Fear Factor; McKinney-Vento Turns 20; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: Immigrants, Refugees, and Homelessness; President's Update; NAEHCY's New Grant Writer; Web-based Professional Development to Study Homelessness and High Mobility in Schools; Legislative Update; New from NCHE; NAEHCY 19th Annual Conference Information

What's Inside?: Memo from Dr. Joycelyn Elders; NAEHCY Board Report; Federal Homeless Education Data Collection; NAEHCY Annual Awards; Legislative Update; School Collaboration with Continua of Care (CoCs); CT Head Start Collaboration with Homeless Education; NAEHCY 19th Annual Conference Information

What's Inside?: Feed The Children partnership; State Coordinator Reflections; Bus Drivers Leave No Child Behind; Education and Foster Care; Publications from NCHE; Business Approach to M-V; Legislative Update; Salute to LeTendre Scholars; Voices From the Gulf

What's Inside?: 18th Annual NAEHCY Conference Overview; NAEHCY Update... from The President; Changes at NAEHCY; Legislative Update... from Barbara Duffield; Street Youth Program Keeps Youth in School; Project Connect’s All in a Day’s Work; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: Focusing Efforts: So Many Liaisons, So Challenging to Stay Connected;18th Annual NAEHCY Conference; NAEHCY Update... from The President; Determining The Mandatory Title I, Part A Set-Aside for Homeless Children; Legislative Update... from Barbara Duffield; Mentors Help Build Student Resiliency; Project Connect’s Early Childhood Outreach Program; New Brief and Handbook Series from NCHE; Regional Partnerships in Homeless Education; Testimony Provided Before House Appropriations Subcommittee; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: Got Gratitude; Standards and Indicators of Quality McKinney-Vento Programs—Revised 2005; The State of American Poverty; Legislative Update; NAEHCY Update... from The President; NAEHCY Governing Board; Creating a School District - Social Service Collaboration; Disasters: Is Your District Ready?; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: The Ambulance Down in the Valley; Hurricane Stories; Legislative Update; NAEHCY Board Election; Regional Updates; McKinney-Vento History; McKinney and Vento; NAEHCY's Mission

What's Inside?: Extreme Makeover: Homeless Student Edition; Call for articles; 17th Annual Conference in New Orleans Preview; NAEHCY Membership; Update from the President; 2005 Call for Awards Nominations; Legislative Updates; Regional Updates; Poem: "Please Excuse"

What's Inside?: Litigation in New York; Collecting Data; 2004 NAEHCY Awards; 17th Annual Conference in New Orleans; NAEHCY Board Nominations; Legislative Updates; Searching for Research and Information

What's Inside?: "A Solid Wall or An Open Door?, NCHE Web Publications; NCLB Compliance Insiders' "Six Strategies for Meeting Transportation Requirements," Legislative Update, "Do You Have a Good Working Knowledge of McKinney-Vento?", "You Did Good"

What's Inside?: Domestic Violence and Homelessness; NAEHCY's 2003 Legislative and Advocacy Agenda; The Problems of Homeless Students; Transportation: Barrier or Key to Success?; Locating Basic Needs Assistance for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness and Their Families; "Zero Tolerance" Rejected by the Circuit Court of Cook County; School Districts Set Example for Successful Transportation of Students in Homeless Situations, A Desk for Billy, The Men for Whom the McKinney-Vento Act was Named, Sauk Village Public Schools Pay Damages and Revamp Policies to Rectify Racial and "Housing Status" Discrimination