Students & Families in Transition is a Juneau School District program that addresses and supports the educational needs of students and their families who are in temporary or transitional housing during the school year. The Juneau School District is guided by the McKinney-Vento law.  This law provides homeless and highly mobile students with certain rights so they have access to opportunities that will help them meet the same high academic standards expected of all students in our district.

Who is in Transition?

In general, these students and families lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.  These temporary nighttime residences may be categorized as:

• doubled-up (temporarily residing with friends or relatives due to lack of permanent/affordable housing),
• unsheltered (vehicle, trailer, campground, etc.),
• hotel or motel (due to lack of permanent/affordable housing),
• inadequate conditions (lack of heat, electricity, water, overcrowded, etc.),
• shelter (AWARE, St. Vincent de Paul), or
• couch-surfing (moving frequently between friends or relatives due to lack of permanent or affordable housing).

 Supports immediately available to students in transition:

• transportation to the school of origin;
• basic school supplies and hygiene items;
• transportation to and from before and after school activities, as grant funding allows; and
• in the case of a homeless student new to our district, automatic enrollment in school with or without a complete set of records.

School-site program contacts:
  Auke Bay Elementary School 463-1775
  Leslie Scranton

  Gastineau Elementary School 463-1999
  Lindsay Campbell

  Glacier Valley School 780-1400
  Rod Crist

  Harborview Elementary School 523-1850
  Amy Buchman

  Mendenhall River School 463-1799
  Suzie Deakins

  Riverbend Elementary School 463-1819
  Lisa Peters

  Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School 463-1899
  Sally Donaldson/Christine Walker

  Floyd Dryden Middle School 463-1850
  Carla Sigler

  Juneau-Douglas High School 523-1622
  Diana Greene

  Thunder Mountain High School 780-1900
  Rosey Enderle

  Yaakoos Daakahidi Alternative HS 523-1802
  Mary Robidoux

Administrative contacts at Marie Drake OIS Office:
  Administrator 523-1730
  Administrative Assistant 523-1735
  homeless@jsd.k12.ak.us
 
Juneau Web Links:

Family Pages (a listing of Juneau resources for families of young children)
http://www.southeastfamilies.org/juneaucommunitypage.html

Juneau Homeless Coalition’s Ten-year Plan to End Homelessness
http://www.juneau.org/clerk/ASC/LC/2005/2005-12-19/Juneau_Homeless_Coali...

Juneau Teen Resources
http://www.juneauteen.com

State Web Links:

Alaska Coalition on Housing & Homelessness
http://www.akcoalition.com/

Homeless Information: Alaska
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
http://www.hud.gov/local/index.cfm?state=ak&topic=homeless

Public Assistance, State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
www.hss.state.ak.us/dpa

State of Alaska Department of Education: Homeless Education
http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/TitleX/home.shtml

National Web Links:

National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAECY)
http://www.naehcy.org

National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE)
http://www.serve.org/nche/

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP)
http://www.nlchp.org

U.S. Department of Education, Education for Homeless Children and Youths (EHCY)
http://www.ed.gov/programs/homeless/index.html