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McKinney Vento Liaisons, Districts, & ESDs


​District McKinney-Vento Point of Contact​​

Update your Liaison Contact

To update your district's McKinney-Vento Homeless Liaison or McKinney-Vento Homeless District Administrative Contact, please revise the Contacts Section of your district's 2023-2024 CIP Budget Narrative Application. CIP Budget Narrative can be accessed via the Central Login Application on the ODE District Website. For CIP Budget Narrative permissions please connect with your District Security Administrator (DSA).

Oregon’s Student Success Act has a Student Investment Account designed to support districts to reduce academic disparities and increase achievement of students navigating houselessness living situations, those who are navigating poverty, and other historically underserved student groups. District Liaisons and ESDs are essential partners in this work.

Office Hours

McKinney-Vento Liaisons are welcome to join us on the third Thursday of every month (except December). You can email our McKinney-Vento inbox to receive the participation information. Two weeks after each Office Hours, we send a newsletter that includes the slide deck and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). You can find historical Newsletters in the archive on our Key Messages Page​. 


​What is the American Rescue Plan?

On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) into law. In recognition of the extraordinary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on students experiencing houselessness, the ARP included an unprecedented $800 million to support the specific needs of houseless children and youth via the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief - Houseless Children and Youth (ARP-HCY) Fund. 

ARP-HCY I & II Reimbursement Process

In order to have claims approved in the Electronic Grant Management System (EGMS), districts must complete a reimbursement request form with each of their items listed and attached to an object and function code. This reimbursement form mirrors the McKinney-Vento Subgrant, ESSER and 21st Century grant processes, so we hope this will be a familiar process for all business managers and fiscal staff. 

The form includes instructions and District staff can schedule 1:1 with ODE staff using this Bookings Page for Technical Assistance. Once complete, districts can send the form to the ODE.ARP.HCY@ode.oregon.gov​ inbox. If you have any other questions about ARP-HCY I & II, please do not hesitate to reach out. 

​There are 12 McKinney-Vento Subgrantees who received federal funds to support youth navigating houselessness for the 2019-2022 and 2023-2025 grant cycles. 

McKinney-Vento Subgrant Reimbursement Process

In order to have claims approved in the Electronic Grant Management System (EGMS), districts must complete a reimbursement request form with each of their items listed and attached to an object and function code. This reimbursement form mirrors the ARP-HCY, ESSER and 21st Century grant processes, so we hope this will be a familiar process for all business managers and fiscal staff. 

The form includes instructions and District staff can schedule 1:1 with ODE staff using this Bookings Page for Technical Assistance. Once complete, districts can send the form to the OR-MV@ode.oregon.gov inbox. If you have any other questions about McKinney-Vento Subgrants, please do not hesitate to reach out. 


Resources

​​The following are links to federal and state laws for guidance on the McKinney-Vento Act, Education for Homeless Children & Youth Program.


​The following are downloadable Awareness Posters. 


​The following include the main national association links that provide information on program implementation, FAQs, training and other resources that may help LEAs manage local youth navigating houselessness education programs. If your Oregon LEA has a particular intake form, training manual or program method that should be considered for a link on this page, please email the document to our McKinney-Vento Inbox.

National Links

  • National Center for Homeless Education - Under federal contract, NCHE provides technical assistance, webinars, topical briefs, and toolkits for school district Homeless Liaisons and State Coordinators.
  • SchoolHouse Connection is a national organization providing strategic advocacy and technical assistance for McKinney-Vento Education programs in partnership with early childhood programs, public schools, higher education, service providers, families and youth.
  • National Homeless Law Center - The mission of NLCH is to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness.