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Pak, Yoon Kyung Pak, Yoon Kyung Hood, Denice Huang, Wen Hao David Kang, Hyun-Sook 2022-12 application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01 The student, Katherine Thiele, accepted the attached license on 2022-12-01 at 21:09. The student, Katherine Thiele, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2022-12-01 at 21:12. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2022-12-02 at 11:55. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #18730 on 2023-04-12 at 08:13:39 Identification of doubled up, homeless students in district level McKinney-Vento act policy Thiele, Katherine 2022-12-02 Doubled Up Homeless Students Mckinney-vento Act Critical Policy Analysis Homeless Student Identification This dissertation is a critical policy analysis for district level McKinney-Vento Act policy. The district is a large urban district, serving mostly low-income, minority students. Through critical policy analysis methodology, I facilitated qualitative interviews with seven participants to analyze current methods being implemented to identify the largest subpopulation of homeless students, doubled up students. Using a trauma informed framework to analyze the data, themes arose demonstrating lack of capacity in many district roles to meet compliance of the district policy and to meet homeless students’ needs. Lack of capacity influenced trust in staff-student relationships and hindered collaborative efforts between staff and students. The interviews also revealed limited evidence of homeless students’ and families’ voices included or prioritized in planning, implementation, or evaluation efforts of this district policy. Overall, there was no targeted outreach to identify doubled up students. Recommendations for improving the policy included prioritizing doubled up students and families voices and needs in planning, implementation, and evaluation efforts, clarifying the construct of doubled up living for district staff in professional development and in policy, increasing advocate positions in more schools, and adding targeted identification strategies for doubled up youth. Thesis eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/117683 Copyright 2022 Katherine Thiele Ed.D. Dissertation Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp