The Department of Education (Department) is issuing a notice inviting applications for 2023 National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports.
Donor Name: Department of Education
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/31/2023
Size of the Grant: $2,500,000
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
The purpose of the Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program is to promote academic achievement and to improve results for children with disabilities by providing TA, supporting model demonstration projects, disseminating useful information, and implementing activities that are supported by scientifically based research.
The School Safety National Activities Program provides support to State educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) for activities to improve student safety and well-being.
Grant Priorities
This competition includes two absolute priorities. Applicants must address both priorities, and they will make one award as a comprehensive investment designed to enhance local and State efforts to improve school climate, conditions for learning, and access to and engagement in the instructional environment, with a focus on students with behavioral challenges, by implementing comprehensive positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) frameworks.
Absolute Priorities: For 2023 and any subsequent year in which they make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition, these priorities are absolute priorities
These priorities are:
- Absolute Priority 1—Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities Program— National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
- The purpose of this priority is to fund a cooperative agreement to establish and operate a National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) (Center). This Center will assist SEAs and LEAs to enhance their capacity to develop, implement, scale-up, and sustain school-wide frameworks for MTSS/PBIS to improve behavior and climate and to enable all students, especially those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those with disabilities, to fully participate in, and benefit from, a highquality learning environment
- Absolute Priority 2: Technical Assistance—School Safety National Activities Program—National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
- The purpose of this priority is to enhance the capacity of SEAs and LEAs to implement positive and safe school environments, and effectively support and respond to students’ social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs to improve their learning, by implementing EBPs 4 within an MTSS/PBIS framework in the following settings:
- Programs or schools serving high percentages of students from low-income families in the following settings:
- Early learning programs
- Elementary schools
- Middle schools
- High schools
- Career and technical education programs
- Rural schools
- Alternative schools and programs
- Juvenile justice system or correctional facilities
- Low-performing schools
- Schools with a high student-to mental health provider ratio
- Schools with high rates of chronic absenteeism, exclusionary discipline, referrals to the juvenile justice system, bullying/harassment, community and school violence, or substance abuse
- Schools in which students recently experienced a natural disaster, incident of violence, or traumatic event
- Schools with high percentages of students with disabilities or English Learners
- Federally supported elementary schools or secondary schools for Indian students.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,350,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,500,000
- Absolute Priority 1: $1,850,000 from the Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities Program
- For Absolute Priority 2: $2,500,000 from the School Safety National Activities Program
- Project Period: Up to 60 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- SEAs; State lead agencies; LEAs, including public charter schools that are considered LEAs under State law; IHEs; other public agencies; private nonprofit organizations; freely associated States and outlying areas; Indian Tribes or Tribal organizations; and for-profit organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
