Purpose: The purpose of this competitive grant program is to provide funding to districts (and their selected schools) to develop and implement action plans that organize, integrate, and sustain school and district-wide efforts to create safe and supportive school environments and coordinate and align student support initiatives. This work is intended to help schools create safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole-school learning environments and make effective use of a system for integrating services and aligning initiatives that promote students' behavioral health (e.g., social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, substance use prevention, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions, and other similar initiatives).
The main priorities for this grant will support:
- Category A: Schools and districts to convene a school team to respond to all questions in the Behavioral Health and Public School (BHPS) Self-Assessment Tool. Teams will then create action plans to identify priority areas as they relate to the six areas in the BHPS Tool which include: Leadership; Professional Development; Access to Resources and Services; Academic and Non-Academic Activities; School Policies, Procedures and Protocols; and Collaboration with Families.
- Category B: Schools to implement action plans. School and district teams previously completed the BHPS Tool and developed these action plans to identify priority areas as they relate to their analysis of the Tool results.
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