Education

Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants (Stronger Connections Grant Program)

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act provided $1 billion under this program to remain available through FY25 for programs and activities that coordinate with community-based services and programs, promote parent involvement, and foster safe, healthy, supportive, and drug-free environments that support student academic achievement.

21st Century Community Learning Centers

This formula grant program supports the creation of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools.

American Rescue Plan’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER)

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) included nearly $122 billion in resources for state education agencies and local education agencies through the ESSER Fund. State and local education agencies can use these funds for a range of evidence-based strategies that reduce violence and increase public safety, including community violence intervention (CVI) programs; summer and year-round programs that provide job training and work-based learning experience for students, including formerly incarcerated students, and disconnected youth who live in communities most impacted by high levels of violence; summer education and enrichment programs, including summer camp; wraparound services—such as medical care, mental health and substance use disorder care, and nutrition support—for students and their families, including hiring support personnel for schools; and more.

National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

This technical assistance resource provides training and technical assistance to schools, school districts, and educational agencies to support efforts aimed at creating and nurturing safe and supportive learning environments.

Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance Center

This technical assistance resource is the nation’s higher ed and K-12 school safety, security, and emergency management and preparedness hub for information and services (e.g., guidance, training, tools, resources). the walk-through and safety inspection of campus and buildings.

Federal Partners in Student Health Resource Hub

This technical assistance resource serves as a portal where K-12 schools, school districts, state education agencies, and other stakeholders can access high quality federal and federally supported information, resources, and research that support student physical and mental health.

Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youths Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk

This formula grant program allocates funds to State educational agencies for services to help provide education continuity for children and youth in State-run neglected and delinquent institutions for juveniles, community day programs, and adult correctional institutions, so that these children and youth can make successful transitions to school or employment after they are released.

National Center on School Infrastructure

This program established a national center on school infrastructure to serve as a clearinghouse of resources for States and local educational agencies related to improving and developing safe, healthy, sustainable, and equitable public school infrastructure through public school infrastructure improvements, and provide technical assistance to Supporting America’s School Infrastructure grantees and high-need LEAs seeking to leverage available resources to improve public school facilities for all students.

SASI (Supporting America’s School Infrastructure)

This competitive grant program provides grants to increase the capacity of states to support high-need local education agencies and schools in leveraging other resources to improve school facilities and environments.

Trauma Recovery Demonstration Grant Program

This program provides competitive grants to state education associations to support model programs that enable a student from a low-income family who has experienced trauma that negatively affects the student’s educational experience to access the trauma-specific mental-health services from the provider that best meet the student’s needs.

School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program

This program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and LEA consortia to increase the number of credentialed mental health services providers providing school-based mental health services to students in LEAs with demonstrated need.

Project SERV

This competitive grant program funds short-term education-related services for local educational agencies and institutions of higher education to help them recover from a violent or traumatic event in which the learning environment has been disrupted.

School Climate Transformation Grant—State Educational Agency Program

This program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to, local educational agencies and schools implementing an evidence-based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all students.

School Climate Transformation Grant—Local Educational Agency program

This program provides competitive grants to local educational agencies to develop, enhance, or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to, schools implementing a multi-tiered system of support, for improving school climate. by using evidence-based efforts that are designed to foster safety; promote supportive academic, disciplinary, and physical environments; and/or encourage and maintain respectful, trusting, and caring relationships throughout the school community.

Project Prevent Grant Program

This competitive grant program provides grants to local educational agencies impacted by community violence and to expand their capacity to implement community- and school-based strategies to help prevent community violence and mitigate the impacts of exposure to community violence.

Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program

This program provides competitive grants to support and demonstrate innovative partnerships to train school-based mental health service providers for employment in schools and local educational agencies.

Grants to States for School Emergency Management Grant Program

This program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies to increase their capacity to assist local educational agencies by providing training and technical assistance in the development and implementation of high-quality school emergency operations plans including plans focusing on violence prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.

Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety

The Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety provides technical assistance to support States and school districts in the implementation of social and emotional learning evidence-based programs and practices.