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GAO-06-680R 1 (2006-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptatln0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 May 11, 2006 Congressional Committees Subject: Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes In August and September 2005, thousands of children were displaced from their homes as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Questions were raised about their safety and the services provided to the most vulnerable children affected by the hurricanes: unaccompanied minors and children in foster care. In addition, thousands of school-aged children requiring educational services were displaced from their schools. In view of these circumstances, we conducted work under the Comptroller General's authority to learn more about the challenges encountered and lessons learned in: (1) locating missing children; (2) locating and serving Louisiana's displaced foster children; and (3) reopening K-12 schools and educating displaced school-aged children. In February 2006, we offered or provided briefings to the staffs of your committees on our preliminary observations. Enclosed is a briefing summary. During the course of our work, officials from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Education informed us that they are taking a number of steps to address the challenges that we identified, and we reflected those actions in our document, where appropriate. As a result, we are not making any recommendations at this time. We provided this document to officials from HHS, Education, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The officials generally agreed with our conclusions or provided technical comments that were incorporated into our document. We are sending copies of this briefing to the cognizant congressional committees, HHS and Education. We will make copies available to others upon request. This briefing also will be available on the GAO Web site at 1k--p://wwwsai.gov. Should you or your staff have any questions, please contact me at (202) 512-7215. Key contributors may be found on the last page of the briefing. Cynthia M. Fagnoni Managing Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security GAO-06-680R Educating and Protecting Children Page 1

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