NATIONAL ASSOC FOR THE EDUCATION OF HOMELESS CHILDRENS AND YOUTH

Mission Statement

Our mission is dedicated to ensuring educational equity and excellence for children and youth experiencing homelessness, including high mobility children and youth, through collaboration, learning, leadership and capacity building of our members. We fulfill our mission by providing technical assistance and sharing best-practice implementation strategies to build the capacity of individuals, agencies, and organizations to ensure the academic success of children. As such, we support state and federal administrators, homeless liaisons, educators, community service providers, advocates, parents and youth. In addition, we collaborate with partners to advocate for public policy change to ensure all children and youth succeed in school. Our members serve the approximately 1.5 million children and youth experiencing homelessness.