ICPH will present four sessions at the NAEHCY Conference, looking at how we can use data to support homeless students.…
Join us at NAEHCY
Audiences: Educators
Homelessness in California: Where Homeless Students Attend School
This interactive map enables users to visualize homelessness among students in California by school district. We believe this tool provides information critical to improving California’s programs and policies.…
Webinar: The California Interactive Map
Join our Principal Policy Analyst, Josef Kannegaard and Senior GIS Analyst, Kristen MacFarlane on 10/19 as they walk through the California Interactive Map, looking at where homeless students attend school.…
Student Homelessness: The Ever-growing Epidemic
With the release of the annual student homelessness snapshot data from New York State, we learned that in school year 2016–17 more than 111,500 New York City students lived in temporary housing, a 6% jump from the prior year and a 60% increase since 2010–11. …
Student Homelessness in New York City School Districts
Delve into data about the homeless student population in NYC’s school districts.…
Bringing Data to Life in Your District
At ICPH, we think it’s important to push the research beyond the numbers to inform policy and drive practice. That’s why we create online apps bringing data to life in your school and district.…
What Makes the Difference Between Dropout and Graduation for Homeless Students?
Students living in homeless shelters face more academic challenges than their classmates who live in stable housing. What makes the difference between dropout and graduation for these teens living in unstable housing settings? Can community and school supports lower dropout rates?…
What Now? Homeless Students in the Aftermath of Harvey
The water in Houston may be receding, but the damage has been done. Before a single drop of rain fell in the state of Texas, more than 110,000 children in at least 25,000 families were homeless. Now those numbers have swelled into the hundreds of thousands.…
How Can Schools Provide Homeless Students with Emotional and Behavioral Support?
Children who experience homelessness are often confronted with roadblocks, potholes, twists, and turns that prevent them from ever reaching their full potential. They are frequently sent to school sleep deprived, malnourished, and with emotional and mental challenges—yet are expected to perform at the same levels as students without the same baggage.…
Elementary School Proficiency: What Schools Are Getting It Right for Students in Shelter?
Across the country, children as young as 8 to 10 years old are experiencing homelessness. As a result, measurable gaps in their educational achievement can surface. In New York City, the elementary school outcomes of students living in shelters make a compelling case for providing additional supports to homeless students.…
How Do We Reach Homeless Students in Need?
The only way that educational supports can be effective is if they actually reach the students who need them. Unfortunately, it seems that supports such as English language learning (ELL) and special education services may be missing opportunities to effectively reach young students who are homeless.…
Why Do Homeless Students Miss School?
Children of all ages who live in homeless shelters have trouble getting to school. This means that half of students living in shelter are chronically absent, missing 20 or more school days in one year. That’s almost four times the rate of housed students who were not low income. What is the cause of this…