Student and Family Advocacy
About Us
Student and Family Advocacy services are available to help all students and their families get connected with resources within the school and community. We believe that students learn best when their family’s basic needs are met, such as food, clothing, and shelter. We offer our students:
- Access to district food and resource rooms
- Support navigating community resources, including housing, healthcare, emergency financial help, food pantries, employment, DHS benefits, and more
- School-sponsored sports fees
- Connecting with counseling and therapeutic support services
- Connecting with health services
Eligibility for McKinney-Vento
If you and your family are:
- Living with friends or family due to loss of housing or financial hardship
- Living in a motel, vehicle, campground, or on the street due to a lack of alternative adequate accommodations
- Living in an emergency shelter or transitional housing
- Living in housing without electricity, running water other basic needs
- A youth living in one of these situations without parent or guardian
- Living in a space with more than 2.5 people per livable room
In addition to the student and family advocate support services listed above, we can help you:
- Enroll in school immediately, even if you are missing documents normally required for enrollment (birth certificate, vaccine record, etc.)
- Choose between the local school where you are living and the school last attended before losing housing or the last school you attend when feasible
- Receive transportation to and from school, and school events
- Enroll automatically in the free breakfast & lunch program
Newberg-Dundee Public Schools Contacts
Zoraida Anaya K-12 (habla español)
Shyla Jasper
Student & Family Advocate
McKinney-Vento Liaison
Foster Care Point of Contact
2400 Douglas Ave.
Newberg, OR 97132
Office: (503) 554-4442
Cell phone: (502) 550-5767
[email protected]
Student & Family Advocate
McKinney-Vento Liaison
Foster Care Point of Contact
2400 Douglas Ave.
Newberg, OR 97132
Office: (503) 554-4442
Cell phone: (502) 550-5767
[email protected]
Additional Foster Care Resources
In addition to the support services listed above, we can help you:
- Receive transportation to and from school, and school activities and events
More Resources
- Visit ODE McKinney Vento
- Visit Community Wellness Collective (local resources).
- Visit School-Based Health Center (healthcare resource on the NHS campus).
- Yamhill County Youth-Youth Outreach:
- Youth Helpline: Call or text 503-550-9638.
- Short-term emergency youth shelter, ages 11-17
The Newberg-Dundee Public Schools Student and Family advocates are the foster care point of contact for all children in foster care that attend all Newberg Schools.