From the People’s Emergency Center (http://www.pec-cares.org):
People’s Emergency Center is releasing a new policy brief that explores how COVID-19 affected the education system’s ability to identify children and youth who experience homelessness in Pennsylvania.
The reported number of children and youth experiencing homelessness declined by 11 percent between School Year (SY) 2018 and SY 2021(*) according to the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s (PDE) evaluation of its Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness program (ECYEH). The PDE reports do not offer an analysis of why the numbers changed, but the single largest factor that occurred during this time is COVID-19.
To help learn why these numbers changed, we surveyed experts from throughout the Commonwealth who work with children and youth experiencing homelessness.
Read our policy brief that shows what the experts were saying: https://www.pec-cares.org/uploads/2/9/3/9/29391481/covid-19_and_pa_ecyeh-2022-07-06.pdf
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