Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Office of Safe and Supportive Schools: Mental Health Service Professional (MHSP) Demonstration Grant Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.184X
Agency: Department of Education
Posted: 2024-03-01 | Closing date: 2024-05-31
Applications Available:  March 1, 2024.     Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 31, 2024     Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: July 30, 2024.     Pre-Application Webinar Information:  The Department will hold a pre-application meeting via webinar for prospective applicants on March 29, 2024 and April 29, 2024.  To register, please visit the program website at: https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-formula-grants/safe-supportive-schools/mental-health-service-professional-demonstration-grant-program/.     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.
Estimated total program funding: 19000000
Award ceiling: 1000000
Expected number of awards: 33
Cost sharing or matching requirement: No

Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Revised Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 7, 2022. Purpose of Program: The MHSP Program provides competitive grants to support and demonstrate innovative partnerships to train school-based mental health services providers (as defined in section 4102 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA)) (services providers) for employment in schools and local educational agencies (LEAs). The goal of this program is to increase the number and diversity of high-quality, trained providers available to address the shortages of mental health services professionals in schools served by high-need LEAs (as defined in this notice). The partnerships must include (1) one or more high-need LEAs or a State educational agency (SEA) on behalf of one or more high-need LEAs and (2) one or more eligible institutions of higher education (eligible IHE) (as defined in this notice). Partnerships must provide opportunities to place postsecondary education graduate students in school-based mental health fields into high-need schools (as defined in this notice) served by the participating high-need LEAs to complete required field work, credit hours, internships, or related training, as applicable, for the degree or credential program of each student. In addition to the placement of graduate students, grantees may also develop mental health career pathways as early as secondary school, through career and technical education opportunities, or through paraprofessional support degree programs at local community or technical colleges. Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.184X. 

Eligibility: 1.  Eligible Applicants:  High-need LEAs, SEAs on behalf of one or more high-need LEAs, and IHEs.  High-need LEA applicants and SEA applicants on behalf of one or more high-need LEAs must propose to work in partnership with an eligible IHE, which may include institutions that serve diverse learners such as an HBCU (as defined in 34 CFR 608.2), TCU (as defined in section 316(b)(3) of the HEA), or other MSI (as defined in sections 316 through 320 of part A of title III, under part B of title III, or under title V of the HEA).  Eligible IHE applicants must propose to work in partnership with one or more high-need LEAs or a SEA.