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A Web of Risk: Homelessness and the Special Education Category “Emotional Disturbance”

Children placed in the special education category Emotional Disturbance can struggle with everything from depression and anxiety disorders to disruptive, oppositional and argumentative behavior. Image from istockphoto.com
Children placed in the special education category Emotional Disturbance can struggle with everything from depression and anxiety disorders to disruptive, oppositional and argumentative behavior. Image from istockphoto.com
...Part Five in our series on homelessness and poverty in the public education system Written by Perry Firth, project coordinator, Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness and school psychology...

Homelessness and Academic Achievement: The Impact of Childhood Stress on School Performance

Describing how she gets her homework done even though her family’s power was cut off, a young girl profiled on 60 Minutes’ “<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeless-children-the-hard-times-generation-20-06-2011/4/">Homeless Children: The Hard Times Generation</a>” says, “[I] just light candles and sit around in a circle of candles.” Image from pixabay.com
Describing how she gets her homework done even though her family’s power was cut off, a young girl profiled on 60 Minutes’ “Homeless Children: The Hard Times Generation” says, “[I] just light candles and sit around in a circle of candles.” Image from pixabay.com
...Part Three in our series on homelessness and poverty in the public education system Written by Perry Firth, project coordinator, Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness and school psychology...

More Barriers to Learning: Homelessness and the Special Education System

From school supplies for children who can’t afford them to recess and a sense of “home,” schools provide many things to many children. Their services and supports are especially important to children and families experiencing homelessness. Image from pixabay.com
From school supplies for children who can’t afford them to recess and a sense of “home,” schools provide many things to many children. Their services and supports are especially important to children and families experiencing homelessness. Image from pixabay.com
...Part Four in our series on homelessness and poverty in the public education system Written by Perry Firth, project coordinator, Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness and school psychology...

Violence Against Women: So Common, It’s Cultural

Violence against women is more ubiquitous than many of us would like to think. Under-reported and rarely prosecuted, this type of violence says as much about its perpetrators as it does about our culture’s continued ambivalence about the value of women. Image from <a href="http://pixabay.com/en/woman-face-contour-burnout-blank-73403/" target="_blank">pixabay.com</a>.
Violence against women is more ubiquitous than many of us would like to think. Under-reported and rarely prosecuted, this type of violence says as much about its perpetrators as it does about our culture’s continued ambivalence about the value of women. Image from pixabay.com.
...Written by Perry Firth, project coordinator, Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness and school psychology graduate student It can be hard to see your own culture. Like oxygen, it...

Listening Perry break

Perry Firth from the Seattle University Project on Family Homelessness was extra excited for snack time!...
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