Grocery cards and car repairs: How COVID aid changed the way schools can help homeless kids
Across the country, school staff are doing things to help homeless students that they’ve never been able to before.
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Across the country, school staff are doing things to help homeless students that they’ve never been able to before.
Enrollment in early childhood development programs can mitigate some of the consequences of homelessness among infants and toddlers, but only 1 out of 9 of these children are enrolled in such programs, according to a recent national report.
Evictions have exacerbated homelessness nationwide, increasing the rate of homeless infants and toddlers. Most of those children are not enrolled in early education programs.
Few babies and toddlers were enrolled in early childhood development programs, which experts say can stem the negative effects of homelessness.
(StatePoint) Between birth and age 3, a child’s brain makes 1 million neural connections per second. Tragically, an increasing number of infants and toddlers go through this crucial developmental period