Announcements

This online course is designed to help school, school district, and community partner personnel understand memoranda of understanding (MOUs) and how they can help strengthen school emergency operations plans. Participants will learn:   

• Basic components of MOUs  

• Types of community partners that schools may want to consider developing an MOU with  

• Strategies for creating MOUs in the school and school district setting   

• How MOUs can enhance collaboration and coordination to support school emergency preparedness  

Learn more.  

SchoolSafety.gov recently launched a new Child Exploitation webpage to better support schools and districts in creating safe, supportive learning environments. The new page includes child exploitation information, resources, and guidance from government agencies and non-profit organizations. The page also outlines ways K-12 school communities can help identify, prevent, and respond to the victimization of students. Learn more.  

This website provides sexual and reproductive health-related resources for youth-supporting professionals working with young people, including young people experiencing the child welfare and/or justice systems, homelessness, and/or disconnection from school and work (i.e., opportunity youth). Learn more. 

This webpage provides information and resources about co-regulation for various age ranges. The page contains a video about co-regulation for adults who work, coach, and care for youth. Additional resources descriptions of OPRE co-regulation research and evaluation projects are also provided. Learn more. 

Application Deadline: March 31, 2023, 11:59 pm ET
Applicant Technical Assistance (TA) Webinar: March 13, 2023, 3:00-4:00 pm ET Join Webinar

Health Center Program School-Based Service Expansion (SBSE) funding will help expand access to primary health services, including mental health services, in schools. Applicants must use SBSE funding to expand one or more of the following services at one or more new or existing school-based service site(s):

• General primary medical care
• Mental health
• Substance use disorder
• Oral health
• Vision
• Enabling (e.g., case management, health education, transportation)

Learn more and apply.

This webpage discusses the importance of mentoring as a component of youth gang violence intervention. Learn more.   

This webpage contains facts and resources on drunk driving prevention for St. Patrick’s Day 2023. The webpage contains graphics, banners, fact sheets, news releases, and sample social media messaging. Learn more.  

The second season of the Awkward Conversations podcast series features 20 video podcast episodes that cover a variety of subjects to help parents empower their kids with the tools needed to stay safe, drug free, and make healthy decisions. Topics include signs of drug use in teens, fake pills, preventing drug misuse among college students, bullying and peer pressure and its consequences, understanding your kids’ social media use, and dos and don’ts when you talk about drugs. Episodes feature guest experts and celebrity parents. Learn more.  

Through the Project SERV grant, ED provides short-term support after a traumatic event to affected local educational agencies (LEAs) or institutions of higher education (IHEs). These grants provide a limited amount of funds to meet acute needs and restore the learning environment. Applications should include the following:   

• Description of the school district  

• Description of the incident and its impact on the school environment

• Explanation of proposed activities designed to restore the learning environment

• Budget and budget narrative  

Learn more.   

Grants.gov deadline: March 21, 2023, 8:59 pm ET   
JustGrants Deadline: March 28, 2023, 8:59 pm ET  

This solicitation provides federally recognized Tribes and Tribal consortia an opportunity for funding to help develop a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety and victimization. CTAS is not a program but a single solicitation to allow Tribes to apply to seven separate grant programs from four grant-making offices. Each Tribe or Tribal consortium may submit only one CTAS application.   

Eligible applicants are encouraged to include proposals for project funding under one or more of the following purpose areas (PAs) in their submission:  

• Purpose Area 1: Public Safety and Community Policing [Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office)]  

• Purpose Area 2: Comprehensive Tribal Justice Systems Strategic Planning [Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), COPS Office, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)]  

• Purpose Area 3: Tribal Justice Systems Program (BJA)  

• Purpose Area 4: Tribal Justice System Infrastructure Program (BJA)  

• Purpose Area 6: Children’s Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities (OVC)  

• Purpose Area 8: Juvenile Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts (OJJDP)  

• Purpose Area 9: Tribal Youth Program (OJJDP)  

Learn more and apply.  

This toolkit helps K-12 institutions better protect against cybersecurity threats and report threats when they arise. The toolkit contains recommendations for K-12 organizations on proactive prevention strategies and explains how CISA is supporting schools in their cybersecurity efforts. Read the accompanying report (PDF, 29 pages). Learn more.  

This report (PDF, 29 pages) provides K–12 institutions with recommendations and resources to better protect against cybersecurity threats. The report provides insight into the current cybersecurity threat landscape specific to the K-12 community and presents school leaders with simple steps to strengthen their schools’ cybersecurity efforts. Learn more.  

Application deadline: March 31, 2023  

This solicitation invites national, regional, and local businesses, non-profits, foundations, and community-based organizations to make bold commitments to advance school sustainability, encompassing infrastructure, health, environmental sustainability education, climate, and environmental justice in America. Applicants must share how they will advance at least one of these infrastructure and sustainability priorities:  

• Priority #1: Ensure equitable access to healthy, safe, sustainable, 21st century physical learning environments.  

• Priority #2: Develop, maintain, and provide environmental sustainability learning, such as climate literacy, green workforce development, and outdoor learning.  

• Priority #3: Build capacity for infrastructure, sustainability, environmental justice, and climate mitigation and adaptation in schools.   

Learn more and apply.  

Date: March 27, 2023, 12:30–2:00 pm ET  

This webinar is part of a four-part professional learning series on Grow Your Own (GYO) programs. GYO programs are one promising strategy for strengthening and diversifying the educator workforce as our nation experiences a shortage of teachers who represent the racial, cultural, and linguistic background of its students. Learn more and register.  

This report (PDF, 3 pages) provides an overview of the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) and its role in strengthening the future educator pipeline as one of several strategies to help all students recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and thrive. The NPSS is a coordinated, research-based effort to improve student outcomes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in reading, math, and high school and college graduation rates; reduce chronic absenteeism; and improve academic student well-being and mental health.  

The NPSS brings together committed, high-quality education and service organizations to recruit, screen, train, support, and engage an additional 250,000 Americans serving as academic tutors, high-quality mentors, student success coaches, wraparound/integrated student support coordinators, and/or post-secondary transition coaches for students. Learn more (PDF, 3 pages).  

The National SOGIE Center provides a centralized site for accessing resources on providing culturally responsive care to children, youth, and young adults with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE) and their families across systems, including child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health (including school mental health), substance use systems, and housing and homelessness.  

The SOGIE Center provides training, technical assistance, and implementation support for creating culturally responsive systems for children, youth, and families with diverse SOGIE. The SOGIE Center has also developed, implemented, evaluated, and refined several evidence-informed interventions and programs for LGBTQ+ youth and their families that can now be replicated. Learn more.   

This handout (PDF, 2 pages) provides an overview of the Data-Informed Leadership for Equity (DILE) partnership. The DILE partnership seeks to develop, test, and refine an approach that incorporates professional learning in culturally responsive practices as well as training and tools designed to support the use of data to address disparities in student experiences and outcomes. Learn more (PDF, 2 pages).  

Grants.gov Deadline: April 3, 2023, 11:59 pm ET
Application JustGrants Deadline: April 17, 2023, 8:59 pm ET
The goal of this program is to implement youth defense delivery system enhancements that strengthen and improve youth defense. This program supports states and localities, through a combination of direct grants and national training and technical assistance, to implement sustainable system improvements that result in improved youth outcomes, reduced recidivism, safer communities, cost savings, and increased public confidence in the juvenile justice system. Learn more.

Comment Submission Period: February 7 - April 10, 2023
Based on the latest nutrition science and extensive feedback from our school meal partners, FNS is proposing updates to the school nutrition standards in a few key areas to give kids the right balance of nutrients for healthy and appealing meals. The proposed updates reflect the most recent Dietary Guidelines, as required by law, and build in plenty of time for planning and implementation to ensure the school meals community and the kids they serve have the best chance for long-term success. This proposed rule — Child Nutrition Programs: Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans — is the next step in an ongoing effort toward healthier school meals that USDA and the broader school meals community have been partnering on for well over a decade. Learn more.

Solicitation Support Webinar: March 29, 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET Register
Grants.gov Deadline: April 6, 2023, 11:59 pm ET
Application JustGrants Deadline: April 13, 2023, 8:59 pm ET
This program intends to improve outcomes for children and youth who are victims of human trafficking by:

• integrating human trafficking policy and programming at the state or Tribal level; and
• encouraging coordinated, multidisciplinary, and statewide approaches to serving trafficked youth.

Recognizing that each jurisdiction is unique, applicants should identify the state or Tribe’s greatest barriers to identifying and assisting child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking and/or investigating and prosecuting these trafficking cases, and propose a program to systematically address those barriers. OVC anticipates making up to four awards of up to $1.5 million each for up to a 36-month period of performance, to begin on October 1, 2023. Learn more.