Homeless Liaison

High School Counselor Stacy Pope is the approved Jasper R-V Homeless student and McKinney-Vento liaison. She has served in this capacity for the last several years, but this serves as your official notification that she continues to serve all students/families who fall into either of those classifications.

The term “homeless children and youth”—

A. means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence...; and 

B. includes — i. children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; or are abandoned in hospitals; 

ii. children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings...; 

iii. children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and iv. migratory children...who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii).

If you have knowledge of such students who would fall into either of these classification, please don’t hesitate to contact Stacy Pope in the High School Counseling Office.