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Homeless Michigan School Children Are Not Forgotten

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Thursday, March 19, 2009   

Detroit, MI - The Michigan Department of Education counted more than 7,500 homeless, school-age children in the state last fall. Some experts fear that number could almost double by the end of the school year.

Joe Tardella, executive director of Southwest Counseling Solutions, Detroit, says many times children in homeless shelters bounce from school to school and eventually drop out, making their plight even worse. However, he adds, efforts are being made to address that problem and keep those children in school.

"We want to keep the kids linked with their home school when at all possible, even if that means transporting them back and forth every day so they at least have some continuity in their educational experience."

He says the Homeless Student Education Act ensures homeless students have transportation to school. If the family has a car, they can get a gas card; if there isn't a car, the school districts can work out transportation. Tardella says the long-term solution is more affordable housing, to get parents and their children back into normal living situations.

"The emergency shelter care is important, but at the end of the day, if you wake up in a shelter, you're still homeless. The key is affordable housing. The federal response needs to be increasing subsidies and increasing efforts to find housing families can afford."




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