‘‘(1) Identifying high-need students in each 
school that the social worker serves, and targeting 
services provided at the school to such students. 
‘‘(2) Providing students in each school that the 
school social worker serves, social work services to 
promote school engagement and improve academic 
outcomes, including— 
‘‘(A) counseling and crisis intervention; 
‘‘(B) trauma-informed services; 
‘‘(C) evidence-based educational, behav-
ioral, and mental health services (such as imple-
menting multi-tiered programs and practices, 
monitoring progress, and evaluating service ef-
fectiveness); 
‘‘(D) addressing the social and emotional 
learning needs of students; 
‘‘(E) promoting a school climate and cul-
ture conducive to student learning and teaching 
excellence (such as promoting effective school 
policies and administrative procedures, enhanc-
ing the professional capacity of school per-
sonnel, and facilitating engagement between 
student, family, school, and community); 
‘‘(F) providing access to school-based and 
community based resources (such as promoting 
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a continuum of services, mobilizing resources 
and promoting assets, and providing leadership, 
interdisciplinary collaboration, systems coordi-
nation, professional consultation, and con-
necting students and families to resource sys-
tems); 
‘‘(G) working with students, families, 
schools, and communities to address barriers to 
educational attainment (such as homelessness 
and housing insecurity, lack of transportation, 
food insecurity, equity, social justice issues, ac-
cess to quality education, and school, family, 
and community risk factors); 
‘‘(H) providing assistance to schools and 
teachers to design social-emotional, educational, 
behavioral, and mental health interventions; 
‘‘(I) case management activities to coordi-
nate the delivery of and access to the appro-
priate social work services to the highest-need 
students; 
‘‘(J) home visits to meet the family of stu-
dents in need of social work services in the 
home environment; 
‘‘(K) supervising or coordinating district 
level school social work services; and 
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‘‘(L) other services the Secretary deter-
mines, in partnership with students, educators, 
and community member voices are necessary to 
be carried out by such a social worker. 
‘‘(e) GRANT RENEWAL.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—A grant awarded under 
this section may be renewed for additional periods 
with the same duration as the original grant period. 
‘‘(2) CONTINUING ELIGIBILITY APPLICATION.— 
To be eligible for a renewal under this section a 
high-need local educational agency shall submit to 
the Secretary, for each renewal, a report on the 
progress of such agency in retaining and hiring 
school social workers to achieve the ratio of not less 
than 1 school social worker for every 250 students 
served by the agency, and shall include— 
‘‘(A) a description of the staffing expan-
sion of school social workers funded through the 
original grant received under this section; and 
‘‘(B) a description of the work conducted 
by such social workers for higher risk students. 
‘‘(f) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide 
technical assistance to high-need local educational 
agencies, including such agencies that do not have 
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adequate staff, in applying for grants under this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(2) EXTENSION
OF
APPLICATION
PERIOD.— 
The Secretary shall extend any application period 
for a grant under this section for any high-need local 
educational agency that— 
‘‘(A) submits to the Secretary a written 
notification of the intent to apply for a grant 
under this section before requesting technical 
assistance under paragraph (1); and 
‘‘(B) after submitting the notification 
under paragraph (1), requests such technical 
assistance. 
‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027. 
‘‘(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) HIGH-NEED LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN-
CY.—The term ‘high-need local educational agency’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 200 of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1021). 
‘‘(2) SCHOOL
SOCIAL
WORKER.—The term 
‘school social worker’ means an individual who— 
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