Homeless Liason Management
Accessibility, Education
Under the Mkcinney Vento act, each school district must have a homeless student liaison to manage the homeless children in the district. This often becomes unmanageable because of the number of homeless students. Homeless Liason Management looked to see how it can help the liaison manage this task.
Team
Team Lead: Habiba Shalaby
Other Members: Margaret Reager, Madhur Singal
Community Partner
Timeline
None
Spring 2016
Human-Centered Design Process
Identify
define target problem spaces
How Can We's that define problem spaces to research
- How can we engage children and their parents in their development and education?
- How can we connect with homeless youth independent of their living situation so that they can explore their interests and education without their homelessness limiting them?
Initial knowledge and assumptions
- Successful initiatives for improving productivity of homeless youth implore one on one mentorship/teaching
- We should integrate parents or programming for parents into our solution
- Because of many children’s unstable living situations, we should have an online component to our solution. This will allow children to be a part of the program regardless of their living situation