The Oregon Department of Education is inviting districts to apply for the Stronger Connections Grant (SCG).
Donor Name: Oregon Department of Education
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding priorities include a focus on mental health supports and activities, suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention, safe and inclusive school climates and systems to address chronic absenteeism.
This is a grant program authorized under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (“BSCA”), which was enacted “to establish safer and healthier learning environments, and to prevent and respond to acts of bullying, violence, and hate that impact school communities at individual and systemic levels, among other programs and activities.
The SCG is designed to provide additional funding and resources to grantees to support the strengthening of their programs to:
- Foster a sense of belonging through a positive, safe, welcoming, and inclusive school environment,
- Support the social, emotional, physical, and mental health needs of all students, through evidence-based strategies,
- Adequately support high quality teaching and learning by increasing educator capacity,
- Recruit and retain a diverse educator workforce, and
- Ensure the fair administration of student discipline policies in ways that treat students with dignity and respect.
Funding Information
The maximum amount of each Grant will be up to $750,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants must have high relative percentages (as determined by a scoring rubric) of students who are:
- Navigating poverty,
- Have high rates of barriers to regular attendance (chronic absenteeism),
- Experiencing high exclusionary discipline rates,
- Navigating housing instability, including unaccompanied youth, and/or
- Served in the foster care system.
For more information, visit Oregon Department of Education.
