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1http://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/learn/ 

index.htm. 

Under the No-Action Alternative, 

Congress would not enact legislation to 

withdraw and reserve the land. BLM 

would retain management responsibility 

for the 22,000 acres of public land. 

Under this alternative, YPG would not 

meet mission requirements, but limited 

military testing and training would 

continue within the present-day YPG 

boundary. While the No-Action 

Alternative would not satisfy the 

purpose of or need for the proposed 

action, this alternative was retained to 

provide a comparative baseline against 

which to analyze the effects of the 

action alternatives. 

The Draft LEIS evaluates the potential 

direct, indirect, and cumulative 

environmental and socioeconomic 

effects of the proposed action. The 

resource areas and effects analyzed in 

the Draft LEIS include biological 

resources, cultural resources, existing 

land use, recreation, socioeconomics, 

and environmental justice. The analysis 

includes minimization measures, 

standard operating procedures, and best 

management practices routinely 

employed by YPG to reduce the 

potential adverse effects of the proposed 

action. 

Under the proposed action (i.e., the 

withdrawal of BLM land for an 

indefinite duration), there would be 

less-than-significant effects on all 

evaluated resources. The withdrawal 

alternatives would result in minor 

adverse effects on land use and 

recreation, but none of the effects would 

be significant. The proposed action 

would transfer management of this land 

from one federal agency to another. The 

Army’s environmental compliance 

requirements would be the same as 

those of BLM. If Congress approves the 

withdrawal, the Army would conduct 

consultation on future actions under the 

National Historic Preservation Act and 

the Endangered Species Act, as 

appropriate. The environmental effects 

of the shorter-duration withdrawal 

alternative would be comparable to 

those of the proposed action but would 

last for a specific period. 

Federal, state, and local agencies, 

federally recognized Tribes, other 

Native American organizations, and the 

general public are invited to participate 

in the public comment process for the 

Draft LEIS. The public comment period 

begins with the publication of this 

notice of availability in the Federal 

Register and will last for 45 days. 

Comments must be received or 

postmarked within 45 days of 

publication in the Federal Register to be 

considered during the decision-making 

process. The Army will hold two virtual 

public meetings during the review 

period. For information about the 

virtual public meetings, please see the 

project website: https://ypgenvironmental.com/highway-95-landwithdrawal-leis. The Army will consider 

all comments received on the Draft LEIS 

when preparing the Final LEIS. 

Congress will receive the Final LEIS 

as part of the withdrawal case file. 

Congress will decide whether to 

authorize the requested land withdrawal 

and reservation. 

James W. Satterwhite Jr., 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3711–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; SchoolBased Mental Health Services Grant 

Program 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) is issuing a notice inviting 

applications for fiscal year (FY) 2024 for 

the School-Based Mental Health 

Services (SBMH) Grant Program, 

Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 

number 84.184H. This notice relates to 

the approved information collection 

under OMB control number 1810–0773. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: March 1, 

2024. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 30, 2024. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: July 1, 2024. 

Pre-Application Webinar Information: 

The Department will hold preapplication meetings via webinar for 

prospective applicants. For more 

information, please visit the program 

web page at: https://oese.ed.gov/offices/ 

office-of-formula-grants/safesupportive-schools/school-basedmental-health-services-grant-program/. 

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for 

obtaining and submitting an 

application, please refer to our Common 

Instructions for Applicants to 

Department of Education Discretionary 

Grant Programs, published in the 

Federal Register on December 7, 2022 

(87 FR 75045) and available at https:// 

www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2022/12/07/2022-26554/commoninstructions-for-applicants-todepartment-of-education-discretionarygrant-programs. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Banks, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

4th Floor, Washington, DC 20202–6450. 

Telephone: (202) 453–6704. Email: 

OESE.School.Mental.Health@ed.gov. 

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability and wish to 

access telecommunications relay 

services, please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description

Purpose of Program: The SBMH

program provides competitive grants to 

State educational agencies (SEAs) (as 

defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801(30)), local 

educational agencies (LEAs) (as defined 

in 20 U.S.C. 7801(49), and consortia of 

LEAs to increase the number of 

credentialed (as defined in this 

document) school-based mental health 

services providers (as defined in 20 

U.S.C. 7112(6)) providing mental health 

services to students in LEAs with 

demonstrated need (as defined in this 

document). 

Background 

Like good physical health, positive 

mental health promotes success in life. 

As defined by the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), ‘‘Mental 

health includes our emotional, 

psychological, and social well-being. It 

affects how we think, feel, and act. It 

also helps determine how we handle 

stress, relate to others, and make healthy 

choices. Mental health is important at 

every stage of life, from childhood and 

adolescence through adulthood.’’ 1

The increases in mental health related 

needs, including those resulting from 

traumatic events such as the COVID–19 

pandemic, community violence, adverse 

childhood experiences, and increasing 

number of instances of bullying and 

harassment, and the impact of social 

media, have brought on challenges for 

children and youth that impact their 

overall emotional, psychological, and 

social well-being, and their ability to 

fully engage in learning. The 

disruptions in routines, relationships, 

and the learning environment have led 

to increased stress and trauma, social 

isolation, depression and anxiety among 

students. 

The priorities for the FY 2024 

competition described in this notice are 

intended to increase the number of 

credentialed school-based mental health 

services providers by providing grant 

funds to increase recruitment and 

retention-related activities and 


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incentives, particularly in LEAs and 

SEAs that have not yet benefited from 

an SBMH grant; promote the 

respecialization and professional 

retraining of existing mental health 

services providers so that they have the 

credentials needed to provide schoolbased mental health services in LEAs 

with demonstrated need; and increase 

the diversity, and cultural and linguistic 

competency, of school-based mental 

health services providers, including 

competency in providing culturally 

sustaining and asset-based services. 

Note: The provision of medical 

services by such services providers is 

not an allowable use of funds under this 

grant. 

Priorities: This competition has four 

absolute priorities and two competitive 

preference priorities. Absolute Priorities 

1 and 2 and the competitive preference 

priorities are from the notice of final 

priorities, requirements, and definitions 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 4, 2022 (87 FR 60092) (NFP). 

Absolute Priorities 3 and 4 are from the 

Administrative Priorities for 

Discretionary Grants Programs 

(Administrative Priorities), published in 

the Federal Register on March 9, 2020 

(85 FR 13640). 

Absolute Priorities: For FY 2024 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applications from this competition, 

these priorities are absolute priorities. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3), we consider 

only applications that meet Absolute 

Priority 1 and one of Absolute Priority 

3 or Absolute Priority 4, or applications 

that meet Absolute Priority 2 and one of 

Absolute Priority 3 or Absolute Priority 

4. Absolute Priority 1 is only applicable 

to SEAs. Absolute Priority 2 is only 

applicable to LEAs or consortia of LEAs. 

Absolute Priorities 3 and 4 are 

applicable to both SEAs and LEAs or 

consortia of LEAs. 

The Secretary may create four funding 

slates for SBMH applications: one slate 

for applications that meet Absolute 

Priorities 1 and 3 (SEA applicants who 

are new potential grantees), a second 

slate for applications that meet Absolute 

Priorities 1 and 4 (SEA applicants who 

are not new potential grantees), a third 

slate for applications that meet Absolute 

Priorities 2 and 3 (LEA or a consortium 

of LEA applicants who are new 

potential grantees), and a fourth slate for 

applications that meet Absolute 

Priorities 2 and 4 (LEA or a consortium 

of LEA applicants who are not new 

potential grantees). As a result, the 

Secretary may fund applications out of 

the overall rank order. 

These priorities are: 

Absolute Priority 1—SEAs Proposing 

to Increase the Number of Credentialed 

School-Based Mental Health Services 

Providers in LEAs with Demonstrated 

Need. 

To meet this priority, an SEA must 

propose to increase the number of 

credentialed school-based mental health 

services providers by implementing 

plans that address recruitment (as 

defined in this document) and retention 

(as defined in this document) of services 

providers in LEAs with demonstrated 

need. Applicants must propose plans 

that include both of the following: 

(a) Recruitment. An applicant must 

propose a plan to increase the number 

of credentialed services providers 

serving students in LEAs with 

demonstrated need. 

(b) Retention. An applicant must also 

propose a plan to increase the 

likelihood that credentialed services 

providers providing services in LEAs 

with demonstrated need stay in their 

position over time. 

Absolute Priority 2—LEAs or 

Consortia of LEAs with Demonstrated 

Need Proposing to Increase the Number 

of Credentialed School-Based Mental 

Health Services Providers. 

To meet this priority, an LEA or 

consortium of LEAs with demonstrated 

need must propose measures to increase 

the number of credentialed school-based 

mental health services providers, 

including plans to address the 

recruitment and retention of 

credentialed services providers in the 

LEA(s). Applicants must propose plans 

that include both of the following: 

(a) Recruitment. An applicant must 

propose a plan to increase the number 

of credentialed services providers 

serving students in the LEA(s) with 

demonstrated need. 

(b) Retention. An applicant must also 

propose a plan to improve the 

likelihood that credentialed services 

providers providing services in the 

LEA(s) with demonstrated need stay in 

their position over time. 

Absolute Priority 3—Applications 

From New Potential Grantees. 

Under this priority, an applicant must 

demonstrate the following: 

(a) The applicant does not, as of the 

deadline date for submission of 

applications, have an active grant, 

including through membership in a 

group application submitted in 

accordance with 34 CFR 75.127–75.129, 

under the program from which it seeks 

funds. 

(b) For the purpose of this priority, a 

grant is active until the end of the 

grant’s project or funding period, 

including any extensions of those 

periods that extend the grantee’s 

authority to obligate funds. 

Absolute Priority 4—Applications 

From Grantees that Are Not New 

Potential Grantees. 

Under this priority, an applicant must 

demonstrate the following: 

(a) The applicant has, as of the 

deadline date for submission of 

applications, an active grant, including 

through membership in a group 

application submitted in accordance 

with 34 CFR 75.127–75.129, under the 

program from which it seeks funds. 

(b) For the purpose of this priority, a 

grant is active until the end of the 

grant’s project or funding period, 

including any extensions of those 

periods that extend the grantee’s 

authority to obligate funds. 

Competitive Preference Priorities: For 

FY 2024 and any subsequent year in 

which we make awards from the list of 

unfunded applications from this 

competition, these priorities are 

competitive preference priorities. Under 

34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we award an 

additional 5 points to an application 

from an SEA that meets Competitive 

Preference Priority 1. We award up to an 

additional 10 points to an application 

from an SEA, LEA, or consortium of 

LEAs, depending on how well the 

application meets Competitive 

Preference Priority 2. 

The total number of competitive 

preference points an SEA applicant may 

compete for is 15. The total number of 

competitive preference points an LEA or 

consortium of LEAs applicant may 

compete for is 10. As stated previously, 

these entities will not be competing 

against one another. 

An applicant must clearly identify in 

the project abstract and the project 

narrative section of its application the 

competitive preference priority or 

priorities it wishes the Department to 

consider for purposes of earning 

competitive preference priority points. 

These priorities are: 

Competitive Preference Priority 1— 

SEAs Proposing Respecialization, 

Professional Retraining, or Other 

Preparation Plan for Existing Mental 

Health Services Providers to Qualify 

Them for Work in LEAs with 

Demonstrated Need. (Up to 5 points) 

To meet this priority, an applicant 

must propose a respecialization (as 

defined in this document), professional 

retraining, or other preparation plan that 

leads to a State credential as a school 

psychologist, school social worker, 

school counselor, or other school-based 

mental health services provider and that 

is designed to increase the number of 

service providers qualified to serve in 

LEAs with demonstrated need. 


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2All strategies to increase the diversity of schoolbased mental health services providers must 

comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws, 

including title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

Competitive Preference Priority 2— 

Increasing the Number of Credentialed 

School-Based Mental Health Services 

Providers in LEAs with Demonstrated 

Need Who Are from Diverse 

Backgrounds or from Communities 

Served by the LEAs with Demonstrated 

Need. (Up to 10 Points) 

To meet this priority, applicants must 

propose a plan to increase the number 

of credentialed school-based mental 

health services providers in LEAs with 

demonstrated need who are from 

diverse backgrounds or who are from 

communities served by the LEAs with 

demonstrated need.2

Applicants must describe how their 

proposal to increase the number of 

school-based mental health services 

providers who are from diverse 

backgrounds or who are from the 

communities served by the LEA with 

demonstrated need will help increase 

access to mental health services for 

students within the LEA with 

demonstrated need and best meet the 

mental health needs of the diverse 

populations of students to be served. 

Requirements: These requirements are 

from the NFP. We are establishing these 

application and program requirements 

for the FY 2024 grant competition and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applications from this competition. 

Application requirement (a) applies to 

SEAs only, and application requirement 

(b) applies to LEAs or a consortium of 

LEAs only. All of the remaining 

application requirements apply to all 

eligible applicants. For FY 2024 and any 

subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applications from this competition, the 

following requirements apply: 

Eligible Applicants: SEAs, as defined 

in 20 U.S.C. 7801(49), or LEAs, as 

defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801(30), including 

consortia of LEAs. 

Program Requirements 

(a) Applicants that receive an award 

under this program must ensure that 

any school-based mental health services 

provider hired under this grant, 

including any services provider that 

offers telehealth services, is credentialed 

by the State to work in an elementary 

school (as defined in 20 U.S.C. 

7801(19)) or secondary school (as 

defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801(45)). 

(b) Applicants that receive an award 

under this program must ensure that 

any school-based mental health services 

provider offering services (including 

telehealth services) does so in an 

equitable manner and consistent with 

the Family Educational Rights and 

Privacy Act (FERPA), the Protection of 

Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), the 

Individuals with Disabilities Education 

Act (IDEA), section 504 of the 

Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans 

with Disabilities Act, as well as all other 

applicable Federal, State, and local laws 

and profession-specific ethical 

obligations. 

Application Requirements 

(a) Describe the LEAs with 

demonstrated need designated by the 

SEA to be served by the proposed 

project. 

SEA applicants must describe the 

LEAs with demonstrated need 

designated to benefit from the SBMH 

program. 

(b) Describe how the LEA, or each LEA 

in the proposed consortium (if 

applicable), meets the definition of an 

LEA with demonstrated need. 

To meet this requirement, an LEA 

applicant or the lead LEA submitting an 

application on behalf of a consortium 

must describe how the LEA or each LEA 

in the consortium meets the definition 

of an LEA with demonstrated need. 

(c) Describe the importance and 

magnitude of the problem. 

Applicants must describe the lack of 

school-based mental health services 

providers and its effect on students in 

the LEA(s) to be served by the grant. 

This must include a description of the 

nature of the problem for the LEA(s), 

based on information, including, but not 

limited to, the most recent available 

ratios of school-based mental health 

services providers to students enrolled 

in the LEA(s), or for SEA applicants, the 

LEAs designated by the SEA to benefit 

from the SBMH program. These data 

must be provided in the aggregate and 

disaggregated by profession (e.g., school 

social workers, school psychologists, 

school counselors) as compared to local, 

State, or national data. The description 

may also include LEA-level or schoollevel demographic data (including rates 

of poverty; rates of chronic absenteeism; 

the percentage of students involved in 

the juvenile justice system, experiencing 

homelessness, or in foster care; and 

discipline data), school climate surveys, 

school violence/crime data, data related 

to suicide rates, and descriptions of 

barriers to hiring and retaining 

credentialed school-based mental health 

services providers in the LEA. 

(d) Logic Model 

The applicant must describe its 

approach to increase the number of 

credentialed school-based mental health 

services providers using a logic model 

(as defined in 34 CFR 77.1), including 

the key project components and relevant 

outcomes (as defined in 34 CFR 77.1). 

The description should indicate how 

the proposed approach taken under this 

program will improve or expand on any 

previous approaches, how the new 

approach will address barriers, and how 

the applicant will sustain the increased 

number of school-based mental health 

services providers after the performance 

period has ended. 

(e) Detailed project budget, including 

matching funds. 

To promote the sustainability of the 

school-based mental health services, all 

applicants must include non-Federal 

matching funds in the amount of at least 

25 percent of their budgets. Budgets 

must describe how the applicant will 

meet the matching requirement for each 

budget period awarded under this grant 

and must indicate the source of the 

funds, such as State, local, or private 

resources. The Secretary may consider 

decreasing or waiving the matching 

requirement post award, on a case-bycase basis, if an applicant demonstrates 

a significant financial hardship. 

Budgets must also specify the portion 

of funds that will be used for 

respecialization, if applicable. 

Administrative costs for SEA applicants 

may not exceed 10 percent of the annual 

grant award. This includes funding for 

State-level or LEA-level administrative 

costs that promote respecialization, if 

applicable. Administrative costs for 

applicants that are LEAs and consortia 

of LEAs may not exceed 5 percent of the 

annual grant award. 

(f) Number of providers. 

Applicants must include the most 

recent available data on the number of 

school-based mental health services 

providers in the identified LEA(s), 

disaggregated by profession (e.g., school 

social workers, school psychologists, 

school counselors), and the projected 

number of school-based mental health 

services providers that will be placed 

into employment in the identified 

LEA(s) for each year of the plan using 

funds from this grant or matching funds. 

If applicable, applicants should provide 

data on the current and projected 

unduplicated numbers of school-based 

mental health services providers 

disaggregated by profession (e.g., school 

social workers, school psychologists, 

school counselors), offering telehealth 

services. 

(g) A plan for collaboration and 

coordination with related Federal, State, 

and local organizations, and schoolbased efforts. 

Applicants must propose a plan 

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and coordinate with related Federal, 

State, and local organizations, and 

school-based efforts (e.g., professional 

associations; colleges or universities, 

including Historically Black Colleges 

and Universities, Minority Serving 

Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and 

Universities; local mental health, public 

health, child welfare, or other 

community agencies, including schoolbased health centers), to achieve plan 

goals and objectives of increasing the 

number of school-based mental health 

services providers in LEAs with 

demonstrated need. The plan must 

include a description of how such 

collaboration and coordination will 

promote program success across 

multiple programs. 

(h) Use of grant funds to supplement, 

and not supplant, existing school-based 

mental health services funds and to 

expand, not duplicate, efforts to 

increase the number of providers. 

Applicants must describe how project 

funds will supplement, and not 

supplant, non-Federal funds that would 

otherwise be available for activities 

funded under this program. 

Applicants must describe how they 

will use the SBMH program funds to 

expand, rather than duplicate, existing 

or new efforts to increase the number of 

credentialed school-based mental health 

services providers in LEAs with 

demonstrated need and how they will 

integrate existing funding streams and 

efforts to support the plan. 

(i) Plan for prompt delivery of services 

to students. 

For SEA applicants, applicants must 

describe their plan to ensure the prompt 

delivery of services to students (i.e., as 

soon as possible, but no later than 180 

days from award), including via 

subgrants to LEAs, as appropriate. For 

LEA applicants and consortia of LEAs, 

applicants must describe their plan to 

ensure the prompt delivery of services 

to students (i.e., as soon as possible, but 

no later than 180 days from award). 

Additionally, SEA and LEA applicants 

must describe how leaders across all 

levels of the project will be engaged in 

the implementation and evaluation of 

the project. 

Definitions 

The definitions of ‘‘credentialed,’’ 

‘‘LEA with demonstrated need,’’ 

‘‘recruitment,’’ ‘‘respecialization,’’ 

‘‘retention,’’ and ‘‘telehealth’’ are from 

the NFP. The definitions of 

‘‘ambitious,’’ ‘‘baseline,’’ ‘‘logic model,’’ 

‘‘project component,’’ and ‘‘relevant 

outcome’’ are from 34 CFR 77.1, and the 

definitions of ‘‘local educational 

agency’’ and ‘‘State educational agency’’ 

are from 20 U.S.C. 7801. The definition 

of ‘‘school-based mental health services 

provider’’ is from 20 U.S.C. 7112. 

These definitions apply to the FY 

2024 School-Based Mental Health 

Services Grant competition and any 

subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applications from this competition. 

Ambitious means promoting 

continued, meaningful improvement for 

program participants or for other 

individuals or entities affected by the 

grant, or representing a significant 

advancement in the field of education 

research, practices, or methodologies. 

When used to describe a performance 

target, whether a performance target is 

ambitious depends upon the context of 

the relevant performance measure and 

the baseline for that measure. 

Baseline means the starting point 

from which performance is measured 

and targets are set. 

Credentialed means an individual 

who possesses a valid license or 

certificate from the SEA or relevant 

regulatory body as a school 

psychologist, school counselor, or a 

school social worker, or other mental 

health services provider, approved by 

the State to provide school-based mental 

health services. 

Local educational agency means a 

public board of education or other 

public authority legally constituted 

within a State for either administrative 

control or direction of, or to perform a 

service function for, public elementary 

schools or secondary schools in a city, 

county, township, school district, or 

other political subdivision of a State, or 

of or for a combination of school 

districts or counties that is recognized 

in a State as an administrative agency 

for its public elementary schools or 

secondary schools. 

(1) The term includes any other 

public institution or agency having 

administrative control and direction of 

a public elementary school or secondary 

school. 

(2) The term includes an elementary 

or secondary school funded by the 

Bureau of Indian Education but only to 

the extent that including the school 

makes the school eligible for programs 

for which specific eligibility is not 

provided to the school in another 

provision of law and the school does not 

have a student population that is 

smaller than the student population of 

the LEA receiving assistance under the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA) with 

the smallest student population, except 

that the school shall not be subject to 

the jurisdiction of any SEA other than 

the Bureau of Indian Education. 

(3) The term includes educational 

service agencies and consortia of those 

agencies. 

(4) The term includes the SEA in a 

State in which the SEA is the sole 

educational agency for all public 

schools. 

LEA with demonstrated need means 

an LEA that has a significant need for 

additional school-based mental health 

services providers based on— 

(1) High student to mental health 

services provider ratios as compared to 

other LEAs statewide or nationally; 

(2) High rates of community violence 

(including hate crimes), poverty, 

substance use (including opioid use), 

suicide, or trafficking; or 

(3) A significant number of students 

who are migratory, experiencing 

homelessness, have a family member 

deployed in the military or with a 

military-service connected disability 

(including veterans), have experienced a 

natural or man-made disaster or a 

traumatic event, or have other adverse 

childhood experiences, such as repeated 

disciplinary exclusions from the 

learning environment. 

Logic model (also referred to as a 

theory of action) means a framework 

that identifies key project components 

of the proposed project (i.e., the active 

‘‘ingredients’’ that are hypothesized to 

be critical to achieving the relevant 

outcomes) and describes the theoretical 

and operational relationships among the 

key project components and relevant 

outcomes. 

Project component means an activity, 

strategy, intervention, process, product, 

practice, or policy included in a project. 

Evidence may pertain to an individual 

project component or to a combination 

of project components (e.g., training 

teachers on instructional practices for 

English learners and follow-on coaching 

for these teachers). 

Recruitment means strategies that 

help attract and hire credentialed 

school-based mental health services 

providers, including by doing at least 

one of the following: 

(1) Providing an annual salary or 

stipend for school-based mental health 

services providers who maintain an 

active national certification. 

(2) Providing payment toward the 

school loans accrued by the schoolbased mental health services provider. 

(3) Creating pathways to grant crossState credentialing reciprocity for 

school-based mental health services 

providers. 

(4) Providing incentives and supports 

to help mitigate shortages. These may 

include, for example, increasing pay; 

offering monetary incentives for 

relocation to high-need areas; providing 


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services via telehealth; creating hybrid 

roles that allow for leadership, 

academic, or research opportunities; 

developing induction programs; 

developing paid internship programs; 

focusing on recruitment and support of 

underrepresented populations; and 

offering service scholarship programs 

such as those that provide grants in 

exchange for a commitment to serve in 

the LEA for a minimum number of 

years. 

Relevant outcome means the student 

outcome(s) or other outcome(s) the key 

project component is designed to 

improve, consistent with the specific 

goals of the program. 

Respecialization means strategies that 

provide opportunities for professional 

retraining and alternative pathways to 

obtain a State credential, aligned with 

the standards of the relevant 

professional organization, as a schoolbased mental health services provider 

for individuals who hold, at a 

minimum, a degree in a related field 

(e.g., special education, clinical 

psychology, community counseling), 

including by doing one or more of the 

following: 

(1) Revising, updating, or streamlining 

requirements for such individuals so 

that additional training or other 

requirements focus only on training 

needed to obtain a credential as a 

school-based mental health services 

provider. 

(2) Providing a stipend or making a 

payment to support the training needed 

to obtain a credential as a school- based 

mental health services provider. 

(3) Offering flexible options for 

completing training that leads such 

professionals to meet State credentialing 

requirements as a school-based mental 

health services provider. 

(4) Establishing a provisional, timelimited, and nonrenewable credential to 

allow individuals seeking 

respecialization to provide school-based 

mental health services under the direct 

supervision of a fully credentialed 

school-based mental health services 

provider of the same profession. 

(5) Offering other meaningful 

activities that result in existing mental 

health services providers obtaining a 

State credential as a school-based 

mental health services provider. 

Retention means strategies to help 

ensure that credentialed individuals 

stay in their position to avoid gaps in 

service and unfilled positions, including 

by— 

(1) Providing opportunities for 

advancement or leadership, such as 

career pathways programs, recognition 

and award programs, and mentorship 

programs; and 

(2) Offering incentives and supports 

to help mitigate shortages. These may 

include, for example, increasing pay; 

making payments toward student loans; 

offering monetary incentives for 

relocation to high-need areas; providing 

services via telehealth; offering service 

scholarship programs, such as those that 

provide grants in exchange for a 

commitment to serve in the LEA for a 

minimum number of years; and 

developing paid internship programs. 

School-based mental health services 

provider means a State-licensed or 

State-certified school counselor, school 

psychologist, school social worker, or 

other State-licensed or certified mental 

health professional qualified under 

State law to provide mental health 

services to children and adolescents. 

State educational agency means the 

agency primarily responsible for the 

State supervision of public elementary 

schools and secondary schools. 

Telehealth means the use of electronic 

information and telecommunication 

technologies to support and promote 

long- distance clinical health care, 

patient and professional health-related 

education, public health, and health 

administration. Technologies include 

videoconferencing, the internet, storeand-forward imaging, streaming media, 

and landline and wireless 

communications. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7281. 

Note: Projects will be awarded and 

must be operated in a manner consistent 

with the nondiscrimination 

requirements contained in Federal civil 

rights laws. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations in 34 CFR 

parts 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, 84, 97, 98, and 

99. (b) The Office of Management and 

Budget Guidelines to Agencies on 

Governmentwide Debarment and 

Suspension (Nonprocurement) in 2 CFR 

part 180, as adopted and amended as 

regulations of the Department in 2 CFR 

part 3485. (c) The Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles, and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards in 2 CFR part 200, as 

adopted and amended as regulations of 

the Department in 2 CFR part 3474. (d) 

The NFP. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$19,000,000. 

The actual level of funding, if any, 

depends on final congressional action. 

However, we are inviting applications to 

allow enough time to complete the grant 

process if Congress appropriates funds 

for this program. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in 

subsequent years from the list of 

unfunded applications from this 

competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: $500,000 

to 3,000,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$1,750,000. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 15–25 

awards. 

Note: The Department is not bound by 

any estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: SEAs, as 

defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801(49), or LEAs, 

as defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801(30), 

including consortia of LEAs. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: a. This 

program requires cost sharing or 

matching requirements. See 

‘‘Application Requirements’’ in Section 

I. 

b. Indirect Cost Rate Information: This 

program uses an unrestricted indirect 

cost rate. For more information 

regarding indirect costs, or to obtain a 

negotiated indirect cost rate, please see 

www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocfo/ 

intro.html. 

c. Administrative Cost Limitation: 

This program involves administrative 

costs for SEAs, LEAs and consortia of 

LEAs. See ‘‘Application Requirements’’ 

in Section I. 

3. Supplement-Not-Supplant: This 

program involves supplement-notsupplant funding requirements. See 

‘‘Application Requirements’’ in Section 

I. 

4. Limitation on Awards: The 

Department will make only one award 

that serves any individual LEA. 

5. Subgrantees: Under 34 CFR 

75.708(b) and (c) an SEA grantee under 

this competition may award subgrants 

to directly carry out project activities 

described in its application to the 

following types of entities: LEAs. The 

SEA grantee may award subgrants to 

entities it has identified in an approved 

application or that it selects through a 

competition under procedures 

established by the grantees. However, an 

SEA grantee is not required to award 

subgrants and may instead administer 

the program directly. Additionally, 

under 34 CFR 75.708 (b) and (c) LEAs 

are not authorized to make subgrants. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Application Submission 

Instructions: Applicants are required to 

follow the Common Instructions for 

Applicants to Department of Education 


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Discretionary Grant Programs, 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 7, 2022 (87 FR 75045) and 

available at https://

www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2022/12/07/2022-26554/commoninstructions-for-applicants-todepartment-of-education-discretionarygrant-programs, which contain 

requirements and information on how to 

submit an application. 

2. Intergovernmental Review: This

competition is subject to Executive 

Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 

CFR part 79. Information about 

Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs under Executive Order 12372 

is in the application package for this 

competition. 

3. Funding Restrictions: We reference

regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. In 

addition, we remind applicants that 

sections 4001(a) and 4001(b) of the 

ESEA (20 U.S.C. 7101) apply to this 

program. Section 4001(a) requires 

entities receiving funds under this 

program to obtain prior, written, 

informed consent from the parent of 

each child who is under 18 years of age 

to participate in any mental-health 

assessment or service that is funded 

under this program and conducted in 

connection with an elementary or 

secondary school. Section 4001(b) 

prohibits the use of funds for medical 

services or drug treatment or 

rehabilitation, except for integrated 

student supports, specialized 

instructional support services, or 

referral to treatment for impacted 

students, which may include students 

who are victims of, or witnesses to, 

crime or who illegally use drugs. This 

prohibition does not preclude the use of 

funds to support mental health 

counseling and support services, 

including those provided by a mental 

health services provider outside of 

school, so long as such services are not 

medical. 

Recommended Page Limit: The 

application narrative is where you, the 

applicant, address the selection criteria 

that reviewers use to evaluate your 

application. We recommend that you (1) 

limit the application narrative to no 

more than 25 pages and (2) use the 

following standards: 

A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5′′ x 11′′, on one side 

only, with 1′ margins at the top, bottom, 

and both sides. 

Double space (no more than three 

lines per vertical inch) all text in the 

application narrative, including titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

references, and captions, as well as all 

text in charts, tables, figures, and 

graphs. 

Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger or no smaller than 10 pitch 

(characters per inch). 

Use one of the following fonts: Times 

New Roman, Courier, Courier New, or 

Arial. 

The recommended page limit does not 

apply to the cover sheet; the budget 

section, including the narrative budget 

justification; the assurances and 

certifications; or the one-page abstract, 

the resumes, the bibliography, or the 

letters of support. However, the 

recommended page limit does apply to 

all of the application narrative. 

V. Application Review Information

1. Selection Criteria: The selection

criteria for this program are from 34 CFR 

75.210. The maximum score for all 

selection criteria is 100 points. The 

points assigned to each criterion are 

indicated in parentheses. Non-Federal 

peer reviewers will evaluate and score 

each application program narrative 

against the following selection criteria: 

(a) Need for the Project (10 points).

The Secretary considers the need for

the proposed project. In determining the 

need for the proposed project, the 

Secretary considers the extent to which 

specific gaps or weaknesses in services, 

infrastructure, or opportunities have 

been identified and will be addressed by 

the proposed project, including the 

nature and magnitude of those gaps or 

weaknesses. (Up to 10 points) 

(b) Quality of Project Personnel (30

points). 

The Secretary considers the quality of 

the personnel who will carry out the 

proposed project. In determining the 

quality of project personnel, the 

Secretary considers the extent to which 

the applicant encourages applications 

for employment from persons who are 

members of groups that have 

traditionally been underrepresented 

based on race, color, national origin, 

gender, age, or disability. (Up to 15 

points) 

In addition, the Secretary considers 

the qualifications, including relevant 

training and experience, of key project 

personnel. (Up to 15 points) 

Note: For purposes of this 

competition, key project personnel 

include school-based mental health 

providers hired as consultants or 

subcontractors. 

(c) Quality of Project Design and

Project Services (35 points). 

(1) The Secretary considers the

quality of the design of the proposed 

project and the quality of the services to 

be provided by the proposed project. In 

determining the quality of the design of 

the proposed project, the Secretary 

considers the extent to which the goals, 

objectives, and outcomes to be achieved 

by the proposed project are clearly 

specified and measurable. (Up to 10 

points) 

(2) In determining the quality of the

services to be provided by the proposed 

project, the Secretary considers the 

quality and sufficiency of strategies for 

ensuring equal access and treatment for 

eligible project participants who are 

members of groups that have 

traditionally been underrepresented 

based on race, color, national origin, 

gender, age, or disability. (Up to 10 

points) 

(3) In addition, the Secretary

considers the extent to which the 

training or professional development 

services to be provided by the proposed 

project are likely to alleviate the 

personnel shortages that have been 

identified or are the focus of the 

proposed project. (Up to 15 points) 

(d) Management Plan and Adequacy

of Resources (25 points). 

The Secretary considers the 

management plan and adequacy of 

resources for the proposed project. In 

determining the quality of the 

management plan and the adequacy of 

resources for the proposed project, the 

Secretary considers: 

(1) The adequacy of mechanisms for

ensuring high-quality products and 

services from the proposed project. (Up 

to 10 points) 

(2) The relevance and demonstrated

commitment of each partner in the 

proposed project to the implementation 

and success of the project. (Up to 5 

points) 

(3) The potential for continued

support of the project after Federal 

funding ends, including, as appropriate, 

the demonstrated commitment of 

appropriate entities to such support. 

(Up to 5 points) 

(4) The adequacy of procedures for

ensuring feedback and continuous 

improvement in the operation of the 

proposed project. (Up to 5 points) 

2. Review and Selection Process: We

remind potential applicants that in 

reviewing applications in any 

discretionary grant competition, the 

Secretary may consider, under 34 CFR 

75.217(d)(3), the past performance of the 

applicant in carrying out a previous 

award, such as the applicant’s use of 

funds, achievement of project 

objectives, and compliance with grant 

conditions. The Secretary may also 

consider whether the applicant failed to 

submit a timely performance report or 

submitted a report of unacceptable 

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In addition, in making a competitive 

grant award, the Secretary requires 

various assurances, including those 

applicable to Federal civil rights laws 

that prohibit discrimination in programs 

or activities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the Department (34 CFR 

100.4, 104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

3. Risk Assessment and Specific 

Conditions: Consistent with 2 CFR 

200.206, before awarding grants under 

this program the Department conducts a 

review of the risks posed by applicants. 

Under 2 CFR 200.208, the Secretary may 

impose specific conditions and, under 2 

CFR 3474.10, in appropriate 

circumstances, high-risk conditions on a 

grant if the applicant or grantee is not 

financially stable; has a history of 

unsatisfactory performance; has a 

financial or other management system 

that does not meet the standards in 2 

CFR part 200, subpart D; has not 

fulfilled the conditions of a prior grant; 

or is otherwise not responsible. 

4. Integrity and Performance System: 

If you are selected under this 

competition to receive an award that 

over the course of the project period 

may exceed the simplified acquisition 

threshold (currently $250,000), under 2 

CFR 200.206(a)(2) we must make a 

judgment about your integrity, business 

ethics, and record of performance under 

Federal awards—that is, the risk posed 

by you as an applicant—before we make 

an award. In doing so, we must consider 

any information about you that is in the 

integrity and performance system 

(currently referred to as the Federal 

Awardee Performance and Integrity 

Information System (FAPIIS)), 

accessible through the System for 

Award Management. You may review 

and comment on any information about 

yourself that a Federal agency 

previously entered and that is currently 

in FAPIIS. 

Please note that, if the total value of 

your currently active grants, cooperative 

agreements, and procurement contracts 

from the Federal Government exceeds 

$10,000,000, the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 200, appendix XII, require 

you to report certain integrity 

information to FAPIIS semiannually. 

Please review the requirements in 2 CFR 

part 200, appendix XII, if this grant plus 

all the other Federal funds you receive 

exceed $10,000,000. 

5. In General: In accordance with the 

Office of Management and Budget’s 

guidance located at 2 CFR part 200, all 

applicable Federal laws, and relevant 

Executive guidance, the Department 

will review and consider applications 

for funding pursuant to this notice 

inviting applications in accordance 

with: 

(a) Selecting recipients most likely to 

be successful in delivering results based 

on the program objectives through an 

objective process of evaluating Federal 

award applications (2 CFR 200.205); 

(b) Prohibiting the purchase of certain 

telecommunication and video 

surveillance services or equipment in 

alignment with section 889 of the 

National Defense Authorization Act of 

2019 (Pub. L. 115–232) (2 CFR 200.216); 

(c) Providing a preference, to the 

extent permitted by law, to maximize 

use of goods, products, and materials 

produced in the United States (2 CFR 

200.322); and 

(d) Terminating agreements in whole 

or in part to the greatest extent 

authorized by law if an award no longer 

effectuates the program goals or agency 

priorities (2 CFR 200.340). 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN); or we may send you an email 

containing a link to access an electronic 

version of your GAN. We may notify 

you informally, also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we notify you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

3. Open Licensing Requirements: 

Unless an exception applies, if you are 

awarded a grant under this competition, 

you will be required to openly license 

to the public grant deliverables created 

in whole, or in part, with Department 

grant funds. When the deliverable 

consists of modifications to pre-existing 

works, the license extends only to those 

modifications that can be separately 

identified and only to the extent that 

open licensing is permitted under the 

terms of any licenses or other legal 

restrictions on the use of pre-existing 

works. 

Additionally, a grantee or subgrantee 

that is awarded competitive grant funds 

must have a plan to disseminate these 

public grant deliverables. This 

dissemination plan can be developed 

and submitted after your application has 

been reviewed and selected for funding. 

For additional information on the open 

licensing requirements please refer to 2 

CFR 3474.20. 

4. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive 

funding under this competition. This 

does not apply if you have an exception 

under 2 CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information, 

as directed by the Secretary. If you 

receive a multiyear award, you must 

submit an annual performance report 

that provides the most current 

performance and financial expenditure 

information as directed by the Secretary 

under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary 

may also require more frequent 

performance reports under 34 CFR 

75.720(c). For specific requirements on 

reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/ 

fund/grant/apply/appforms/ 

appforms.html. 

(c) Under 34 CFR 75.250(b), the 

Secretary may provide a grantee with 

additional funding for data collection 

analysis and reporting. In this case the 

Secretary establishes a data collection 

period. 

5. Performance Measures: For the 

purpose of Department reporting under 

34 CFR 75.110, we have established the 

following performance measures for the 

School-Based Mental Health Services 

Grant Program: 

(a) The unduplicated, cumulative 

number of new school-based mental 

health services providers hired for each 

LEA with demonstrated need as a result 

of the grant. 

(b) The unduplicated, cumulative 

number of school- based mental health 

services providers retained in LEAs 

with demonstrated need as a result of 

the grant. 

(c) The ratio of students to schoolbased mental health services providers 

for each LEA with demonstrated need 

served by the grant, and the numbers of 

school-based mental health services 

providers and students used to calculate 

the ratio. 

(d) The attrition rate of school-based 

mental health services providers for 

each LEA with a demonstrated need that 

is participating in the grant. 

(e) The total number of students who 

received school-based mental health 

services as a result of the grant. 

(f) For grantees that addressed 

Competitive Preference Priority 2, the 

number of such grantees that met their 

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school-based mental health services 

providers. 

These measures constitute the 

Department’s indicators of success for 

this program. Consequently, we advise 

an applicant for a grant under this 

program to give careful consideration to 

these measures in conceptualizing the 

approach for its proposed project plan. 

Each grantee will be required to 

provide, in its annual performance and 

final reports, data about its progress in 

meeting these measures. These data will 

be considered by the Department in 

making potential continuation awards. 

Consistent with 34 CFR 75.591, 

grantees funded under this program 

must meet the requirements of any 

evaluation of the program conducted by 

the Department or an evaluator selected 

by the Department. 

Performance measure targets: The 

applicant must propose annual targets 

for the measures listed above in their 

application. Applicants must also 

provide the following information as 

directed under 34 CFR 75.110(b) and (c): 

(1) An explanation of how each

proposed performance target is 

ambitious (as defined in this notice) yet 

achievable compared to the baseline (as 

defined in this notice) for the 

performance measure. 

(2) An explanation of the data

collection and reporting methods the 

applicant would use and why those 

methods are likely to yield reliable, 

valid, and meaningful performance data. 

(3) An explanation of the applicant’s

capacity to collect and report reliable, 

valid, and meaningful performance data, 

as evidenced by high-quality data 

collection, analysis, and reporting in 

other projects or research. 

Note: If the applicant does not have 

experience with collection and 

reporting of performance data through 

other projects or research, the applicant 

should provide other evidence of 

capacity to successfully carry out data 

collection and reporting for its proposed 

project. 

The reviewers of each application will 

score related selection criteria on the 

basis of how well an applicant has 

considered these measures in 

conceptualizing the approach and 

evaluation of the project. 

All grantees must submit an annual 

performance report and final 

performance report with information 

that is responsive to these performance 

measures. 

6. Continuation Awards: In making a

continuation award under 34 CFR 

75.253, the Secretary considers, among 

other things, whether a grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the goals and objectives of the project; 

whether the grantee has expended funds 

in a manner that is consistent with its 

approved application and budget; and, 

if the Secretary has established 

performance measurement 

requirements, whether the grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the performance targets in the grantee’s 

approved application. 

In making a continuation award, the 

Secretary also considers whether the 

grantee is operating in compliance with 

the assurances in its approved 

application, including those applicable 

to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

VII. Other Information

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document and a copy of the 

application package in an accessible 

format. The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Adam Schott, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Programs, Delegated the Authority to Perform 

the Functions and Duties of the Assistant 

Secretary Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04358 Filed 2–29–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; Mental 

Health Service Professional 

Demonstration Grant Program 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) is issuing a notice inviting 

applications for fiscal year (FY) 2024 for 

the Mental Health Service Professional 

(MHSP) Demonstration Grant Program, 

Assistance Listing Number 84.184X. 

This notice relates to the approved 

information collection under OMB 

control number 1810–0772. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: March 1, 

2024. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: May 15, 2024. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: July 15, 2024. 

Pre-Application Webinar Information: 

The Department will hold a preapplication meeting via webinar for 

prospective applicants on TBD, at 1:00 

p.m. and TBD at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

To register, please visit the program

website at: https://oese.ed.gov/offices/

office-of-formula-grants/safesupportive-schools/mental-healthservice-professional-demonstrationgrant-program/.

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for

obtaining and submitting an

application, please refer to our Common

Instructions for Applicants to

Department of Education Discretionary

Grant Programs, published in the

Federal Register on December 7, 2022

(87 FR 75045) and available at https://

www.federalregister.gov/documents/

2022/12/07/2022-26554/commoninstructions-for-applicants-todepartment-of-education-discretionarygrant-programs.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Nicole White, U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 4th

Floor, Washington, DC 20202–6450.

Telephone: (202) 453–6729. Email:

Mental.Health@ed.gov.

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability and wish to 

access telecommunications relay 

services, please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description

Purpose of Program: The MHSP

Program provides competitive grants to 

support and demonstrate innovative 


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