Overview
The Humboldt City School System in accordance with the state of Tennessee recognizes that all homeless individuals and families should receive safe, temporary shelter, and planning for permanent housing when a family or person has been identified as homeless. The goal of Humboldt City Schools is not to sanction families or students, but to create a safe environment and encourage clients to take steps that will lead to independence. To achieve that goal, the client responsibility procedures should consist of clients making the transition to independent living while ensuring that clear and fair standards of responsibility of mutual respect should be exercised between clients and staff. Humboldt City School providers will work closely with clients to obtain the following resources:
McKinney-Vento Definition of Homeless
42 U.S.C. § 11434a(2)
The term “homeless children and youth”—
A. means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence…; and
B. includes —