Project Hope & Empowerment ~ Leveraging Possibilities (Project HELP)
Our Mission
Project HELP's mission is to ensure the educational rights and protections due under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to all students experiencing homelessness
Program Goals
Three primary goals of Project HELP include: (1) providing services to an increasing number of 麻豆果冻传媒 ISD students under McKinney-Vento, (2) maintaining partnerships/collaborations with our many community resource collaborators, and (3) ensuring our service strategies are student-centered and aligned with students foremost being academically successful.
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act
Eligibility for services
- Living in shared housing due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reason.
- Living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, cars, substandard housing, abandoned buildings, and/or campgrounds
- Living in emergency or transitional shelters
- Being an unaccompanied youth (not living with a parent or guardian) living in a temporary situation
- Being a migratory child who is living in any of the above circumstance
Parent and Student Educational Rights
- Immediate enrollment
- Removal of barriers to school enrollment
- School selection
- Transportation assistance (school bus or VIA)
- Immediate eligibility for free child nutrition
TEA McKinney Vento Flyer for Parents - English
TEA McKinney Vento Flyer for Parents - Spanish
TEA McKinney Vento Flyer for Students - English
TEA McKinney Vento Flyer for Students - Spanish
Resources
Contact Us
Project HELP
Student Support Services
Campbell Elementary School
2613 Rogers Ave. Room 207
麻豆果冻传媒, TX 78722
Office: 512-414-3690
Fax: 512-414-0761
- Carla Grace Scott, Administrative Supervisor & District Homeless/Foster Care Liaison
512-414-1700 ext. 57613
carla.g.scott@austinisd.org
- Laurie Lopez, Program Specialist
512-414-3690 ext. 56764
laurie.lopez@austinisd.org - Howard Hooper, Jr., Project Supervisor
- 512-414-3690 ext. 55963
howard.hooper@austinisd.org - Bree Rolfe, Project Supervisor
- 512-414-3690 ext. 53624
bree.rolfe@austinisd.org
- Kevin Hopper, Project Supervisor
512-414-3690 ext. 58142
kevin.hopper@austinisd.org - Letty Green, Project Supervisor
512-414-1700 ext. 56729
letty.green@austinisd.org