FAMILIES IN TRANSITION
If you lose your home, you do not have to lose your school.
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act defines educational rights and services for students living in transitional housing situations. Assistance is available for Pine River Area School families with school-age children living in the following situations:
Living in shelters
Living in motels
Doubled up with family or friends due to lack of housing or income
Living in campgrounds, cars, or other outside places.
Pine River Area Schools can help:
Enroll in school without the normal records required. The Homeless Student Liaison will help you locate lost records or get them from a previous school. You can enroll immediately while records are being located.
School of Origin can be maintained. This means that if you are in any of the above living situations, your child can stay in the school he or she attended before your living situation changed. We want to help you keep your child in one school for one year, if you choose. Remember: If you lose your home, you do not have to lose your school.
Transportation can be provided. Students in all of the above situations have the right to be transported to and from school.
School Supplies, clothes, free breakfast and lunch are all also available when you live in the above situations. Other referrals can also be made.
For more information on if your child qualifies for this assistance, contact your child’s school counselor or the district homeless liaison.
Contact Information
Brian Mumby
District Homeless Student Liaison
Pine River Middle School Principal
17445 Pine River School Road
Le Roy, MI 49655
231-829-3841
For additional resources for families experiencing housing transitions or homelessness, please vist the Wexford Missaukee ISD Homeless Information Page.