Financial+Barriers+to+Student+Engagement

=​Addressing Financial Barriers to Education​= === [|DEECD - Understanding the Needs of Students from Lower Socio Economic Backgrounds] [|A Framework for Understanding Poverty - Ruby Payne.doc]===

[|DEECD Supporting Children, Young People affected by Homelessness]
=Homelessness= [|WAYSS - Housing Support] [|Youth Homelessness Matters] [|Students Renting Rights - Consumer Affairs] [|Hanover Welfare Services] [|Lighthouse Foundation - to reduce homelessness]

General Support
[|Victoria State Concessions] [|Counting the Kids Brokerage Fund][|-] Odyssy House [|Centrelink - Parental Income and Tax][|A Start in Life]

[|Education Costs Kit] - Checklist to use when considering curriculum activities [|Social Inclusion at School - How to help low income families]
 * Social Inclusion at School**

[|Working with vulnerable families] [|Making Education a Reality - Ardoch] [|Travellers Aid Transport Assistance]

[|Single Mothers - a resource for parenting solo] [|Education Tax Refund] [|Education Conveyance Allowance] [Confeyance Allowance|Education Conveyance Allowance Application] [|Education Confeyance Allowance]

[|DEECD Equity Funding] [|Counting the Kids Odyssy House] Funding may be available for children and young people whose parents are drug dependent

Information for parents to help manage financially
Stretching the Dollar [|Stretching the dollar further]ABooklet with money saving ideas from Good Shepherd [] Financial Counseling - Family Mediation Centre, Narre Warren, 48 Webb Street, Narre Warren 9705 6277 Mon, Thurs, Friday - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Tuesdays - 9:00 am - 8:00 pm

Uniforms/ Textbooks
[|School Exchange] [|Recycled Text Books - Secondary]

[|Freecycle] [|Freecycle Casey]

[|State Schools Relief Committee]

[|The Sustainable School]

Other Assistance
[|DEECD School Scholarships - apply November - December] Connections UnitingCare South Eastern Chances [|Further Information about South Eastern Chances] [|DEECD Financial Assistance 5 to 18 years] [|DEECD School Start Bonus]

[|Green PC - Computers for Low Income Earners] [|Computer Bank] [|Equipment Recycling Network - Computers]
 * Computers**