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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2017 - 2018 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: August 21, 2017 03:09 PM
From: Senator Wayne D. Fontana
To: All Senate members
Subject: Homeless Children’s Awareness Week
 

In the coming week, I will be introducing a resolution recognizing the week of October 15 through 21, 2017, as “Homeless Children’s Awareness Week” in Pennsylvania.

The federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act states that children are homeless if they lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. Furthermore, children are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population and are found in every county in Pennsylvania. During the 2014-15 school year, over 26,000 school age children and youth were reported as experiencing homelessness which made up about 1 percent of the total Pennsylvania public school enrollment population for that year.

Please join me by co-sponsoring this resolution and help bring attention to the growing problems and issues children experiencing homelessness face throughout Pennsylvania.



Introduced as SR188