The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) and the Utah Department of Health (UDOH), with the support of Utah’s Local Health Departments, are collaboratively forming a grant program to meet individual jurisdictional and local needs of clinical support in Utah’s Kindergarten to 12th grade (K-12): Local Education Agencies (LEAs), charter and private schools to establish, expand, train, and sustain the school-based health workforce for Utah’s K-12 schools to support jurisdictional COVID-19 prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives.
Donor Name: Utah State Board of Education (USBE)
State: Utah
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 12/27/2021
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Details:
This grant opportunity invites all Utah K-12 schools to increase their school nursing staff. This is a second application round following awards to the prioritized Local Education Agencies based on COVID-19 burden.
Purpose
To establish, expand, and sustain a public health workforce within K-12 Schools to support jurisdictional COVID-19 prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives.
Funding Information
Amount requested, up to $100,000 for each awarded K-12 Charter or Private School.
Eligibility
- Funding is intended for K-12 Community Public Schools. The second round will fund Local Education Agencies (LEAs), Charter Schools, and Private Schools in the State of Utah. Priority of awardees include; LEAs, Charter Schools, and Private Schools.
- Additional considerations include; how districts, charter, private and parochial schools are supported by the State of Utah in determining awards of this grant, how each award will meet the State’s jurisdictional and local needs, and the social vulnerability index within the corresponding county and facility or LEA location(s).
Allowable Costs
- Costs may be related to recruiting, hiring, and training of individuals that provide COVID-19 related services of those who serve as a registered school nurse who is school-based, converting current nurses from part-time to full-time work, increasing hours, increasing nursing salaries or otherwise supporting retention efforts to reach a total of 2 new FTE registered nurses for LEAs, or 1 new FTE registered nurse for charter and private schools.
- Requested funds must not be used to supplant or replace funding sources for existing FTE hours of registered nurses.
- Purchase of equipment and supplies necessary to support the expanded workforce including personal protective equipment, and other supplies needed to perform the duties of the position, computers, cell phones, internet costs, cybersecurity software, and other costs associated with support of the expanded workforce.
- Administrative support services necessary to implement activities funded under this section, including travel and training.
For more information, visit K-12 School-Based COVID-19 Response Grant.
