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Early Childhood Homelessness
Help support the well-being of young children and their families experiencing homelessness with our early childhood homelessness resources.
The early learning and development of our country’s youngest children is essential to our work.
Supporting the well-being of these young children and their families is an urgent task and one that is critical to improving the long-term educational outcomes of children nationwide.
Research has established a strong connection between a young child’s early experiences and the development of his or her brain structure. We know that homelessness jeopardizes the health, early childhood development and educational well-being of infants, toddlers and preschool-aged children. It also creates unique barriers to participating in early care and education.
With nearly 50% of children living in federally-funded homeless shelters under the age of 5, this is a problem for families, communities, states and the country.
Enhance your knowledge around family homelessness and the McKinney-Vento Homelessness Assistance Act’s definition of “homeless” as it refers to children and youth.
Every child deserves a safe, warm home every night of the year.
This is not the reality for more than 30,000 kids in North Carolina. Children experience homelessness at an astonishing rate in our state. We need you to help bring them home.
Join Early Years in the Bringing Families Home campaign. This broad-reaching awareness campaign needs the full community to share messages and awareness to help North Carolina Families.
It’s time to forget what we think we know about children experiencing homelessness and step up for families. View the Bringing Families Home campaign page and learn how you can help raise awareness.
