Intercultural and Community Outreach Departments will use the documentation to fund this position and program.

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What is Graduate Profile?

Central Consolidated Schools (CCSD) is asking for community input. We are facilitating discussions with a variety of stakeholder groups to better understand the knowledge, skills, values, and cultural/linguistic competencies high school students should have mastered by the time they graduate in order to succeed in college, career, and life. The findings will help our district make plans regarding policy and practice at all grade levels. Graduate Profile will...

Define CCSD’s graduates

• Knowledge
• Skills
• Values
• Culture
• Language

For more information, please contact Dr. Louisa Lopez-Martinez at martl@centralschools.org, (505) 368-5177.

Important Documents

• Graduate Profile Brochure
• FOCUS GROUP Graduate Profile Presentation

Federal Definition of a Homeless Child or Youth

The legal term “homeless children and youth” is based on the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is defined as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and includes:

• Children and youth who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or similar reasons; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals, or are awaiting foster care placement.
• Children and youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
• Children and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and
• Migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purpose of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii).

Homeless Students’ Rights

• Enroll and attend classes while the school arranges for transfer of required school records or documents
• Enroll and attend classes even while the school and parent seek to resolve a dispute over enrollment
• Be immediately enrolled in school without a permanent address
• Go to school, no matter where the student lives or how long he/she has lived there
• Receive transportation to his/her school or origin as long as he/she is homeless, or if the student becomes permanently housed, receive transportation until the end of the academic school year
• Have access to the same programs and services that are available to all other students (like free/reduced lunch, ELL, Title I services, Special Education, before and after school care, and gifted services).

In what ways do liaisons help students?

• Locate homeless children and youth in their district, make sure they are immediately enrolled and have an equal opportunity to succeed in school
• Make sure homeless students receive appropriate services, including transportation, preschool, special education, English language learner services, and vocational education.
• Make referrals to health care services, dental services, mental health services, or other care providers.
• Assist unaccompanied youth with enrollment, transportation, and disagreements with schools.
• Help students get immunizations and immunization records.
• Make sure that disagreements between homeless students and schools are resolved.

CCSD NM Student Residency Form Common Signs of Homelessness Homeless Brochure Referral to LEA Homeless Liaison Serving Students Experiencing Homelessness

Navajo Regional Behavioral Health Center:

• Navajo Behavioral Health

Office of the Special Education Ombud Flyers:

• OSEO Flyer English
• OSEO Flyer Spanish