The U.S. Department of Education is expected to release a grant notice for Safe Schools Healthy Students grants on April 6. In the past, these grants have been available to individual school districts or a consortia of districts. The Department expects to make 20 awards ranging from $1-3 million.

We have recently concluded our evaluations of two Safe Schools/Healthy Students grantee sites, for Spring Lake Park District 16 and a consortium of districts led by the Northwest Minnesota Council of Collaboratives based in Crookston. District 16 submitted their final report in December and received a very nice compliment from their program officer from the U.S. Department of Education:

You and your staff did a very nice job on the report. I was wondering if you would feel comfortable with sharing it and the evaluation report with other grantees. A couple of sites I work with seem to have struggled with these final and evaluation reports, and I think perhaps a concrete example might be of some help.

If your district or organization is interested in exploring this grant opportunity, please feel free to contact us; we are always happy to partner on new grant applications.