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Collaboration with legal aid lawyers is essential to connect students, young people, and their families to public benefits and other programs they are entitled to. This session will include an overview of common legal issues and supports and legal services available to young people experiencing homelessness, including access public benefits, sealing juvenile records, working with victims of trafficking, and other related and relevant programs that can provide young people with much needed stability. This session will also discuss many ways that legal aid lawyers can help school districts and states implement McKinney-Vento, through effective collaboration and coordination.

Presenters: Michael Santos, American Bar Association; Kelly Russo, American Bar Association; Patricia Nix-Hodes, Law Project of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless; Paige Joki, Education Law Center