Nov 1, 2021 | Guest Blogs
November is Children’s Grief Awareness Month and includes National Homelessness and Hunger Awareness Week — issues that are tragically intertwined, now more than ever. Consider: More than 140,000 children in the United States have lost a primary or secondary...
Sep 22, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SHC Perspectives
Evictions, natural disasters, pandemic-related job loss, and increased family stress have the potential to cause unprecedented levels of child, youth, and family homelessness this school year. Here, we break down five facts every educator needs to know about child and...
Sep 21, 2021 | Guest Blogs
Partnering with Black Community Based Organizations to Address Student Homelessness Today, over 1.4 million students are identified as experiencing homelessness and a disproportionate number of those youth are Black. Data from the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior survey show...
Jul 28, 2021 | Guest Blogs, Young Leaders in the News, Youth Perspective
This story originally appeared on HomeRoom, the official blog of the U.S. Department of Education. This essay is written by Chandler K., SchoolHouse Connection’s Scholar. I can remember being a young teen, living with my mother and six siblings and being locked...
Jun 22, 2021 | Guest Blogs, Youth Perspective
Written By Brandon Plowman, SHC Young Leader When I’m watching or reading queer media, I can be sure that at least one, and sometimes multiple, of these things will happen: 1. One or more LGBTQ+ characters will end up being abused or dead. 2. A transgender woman will...
May 12, 2021 | Guest Blogs
Written by Vikki C. Terrile, Librarian and Assistant Professor, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Bayside, NY Libraries are often a lifeline for families in homeless situations. Prior to the pandemic, they were the place where kids and parents could come to use...
