New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for Homeless Students

Students who transfer schools often do worse in school than those who don't transfer. The McKinney-Vento Act can help solve this problem by allowing students to stay in the same school and get free transportation.

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Networking Meetings

In 2006, NYS-TEACHS started a new initiative to help regions develop, build, and sustain their capacity to network together to meet the needs of students experiencing homelessness. We are calling this effort Regional Facilitated Networking Meetings. The purpose of the meetings is to bring together professionals from schools, social services providers, community organizations and others to engage in a discussion about common challenges, best practices, and available community resources in an effort to build and strengthen collaborative relationships among the participants.

With the help of a consultant, Cassandra Archie, we have held Regional Facilitated Networking meetings in Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Southern Westchester BOCES, and Herkimer BOCES.

For information about the regions where networking meetings have been held and for future networking activities, please contact:

• Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Sarah Benjamin, sbenjami@esboces.org
• Herkimer BOCES, Mary Kline, mkline@herkimer-boces.org
• Southern Westchester BOCES, Maria McGinty, mmcginty@swboces.org
• Broome-Delaware-Tioga BOCES, Pat Kuenecke, pkueneck@btboces.org or Tarika Peeples, tpeeples@btboces.org

BOCES Networking Resource Guides

• Eastern Suffolk BOCES 2006-2007 LEA Liaisons[Excel]

Southern Westchester BOCES Resources

• Community Resources in Southern Westchester [PDF]
• Southern Westchester BOCES 2006-2007 LEA Liaisons [PDF]

Find out more about Networking Meetings by contacting our hotline at (800) 388-2014.