Technical Assistance

Application deadline: April 24, 2024  This program seeks to promote academic achievement and improve results for children with disabilities by providing technical assistance (TA), supporting model demonstration projects, disseminating useful information, and implementing activities that are supported by scientifically based research. This priority area will fund four cooperative agreements to establish ...

The Youth Systems Building Academy (YSB Academy) provides local workforce systems and their community partners with individualized training and tailored technical assistance as they create plans to explore, design, test, implement, or scale system-level approaches to engage and support young people entering the workforce. Learn more. ...

ED announced funding for three technical assistance (TA) centers to support the Department’s Raise the Bar: Lead the World initiative. These TA centers will fund state and local efforts to support and enhance student wellbeing, academic success, and school safety:  Comprehensive Literacy State Development Center   National Technical Assistance Center for 21st Century Community ...

This resource (PDF, 7 pages) highlights OSEP-funded centers that help support the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and provide technical assistance (TA) services to families, schools, districts, and states. The document outlines:  Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) centers  Parent Training and Information centers  Educational Technology, Media, and Materials centers  Personnel ...

The TAC seeks to assist and expand the capacity of State Medicaid agencies, local education agencies (LEAs), and school-based entities to provide greater assistance under Medicaid. This will include convening small group stakeholder calls with target audience members, including a special emphasis on schools located in small, rural communities. The ...

The Next Level Now (NLN) Collaborative community is DOL’s employment and training hub for delivering technical assistance (TA) to the public workforce system and partners and helping to improve services, quality, and outcomes for jobseekers and employers at the state and local levels. The NLN Collaborative will develop and disseminate ...

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 ...

This collection of technical assistance briefs (PDF, 342 pages) provides important resources for state leaders, policy makers, providers, and peers to learn from. They provide examples of innovative services and describe the need for further 988 implementation around the country. The briefs provide key information to establish a continuum of ...

This fact sheet (PDF, 1 page) describes programs, training, and technical assistance for juvenile public defenders. Research shows that barriers to juveniles’ receipt of proper counsel include juvenile defenders’ excessive caseloads, inadequate compensation for public defenders, and a lack of juvenile-specific training for lawyers. Learn more.  ...

Dates: April 19, April 26, and May 3, 2022  As part of the #KeepTeenWorkersSafe campaign, three “Teen Tuesdays” will occur to promote the workplace safety and health of teens. These events are intended to educate teen workers, employers, parents, teachers, and other caring adults about workplace hazards, worker rights, and how ...