California Community Schools Partnership Program Overview

California Community Schools Partnership Program: 2022-23 Implementation Grant Application Webinar February 2, 2023, at 2:30 p.m. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Tony Thurmond, State Superintendent of Public Instruction and February 3, 2023, at 10:00 a.m.

Community Schools Overview Program Overview Grant Application Review Intent, Eligibility and Competitive Priorities Timeline and Application Submission Question and Answer Agenda

A community school is a whole-child school improvement strategy where the LEA and its schools work closely with teachers, students, and families. Community Schools Overview (1) Community schools partner with community agencies and local government to align community resources to improve student outcomes.

Disruptions to education and access to services due to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency have forced LEAs and schools to rethink the direct connection between schools and families, and to examine the link between school and community services, including ways in which these links can be strengthened. Community Schools Overview (2)

Community schools often include four evidence-informed programmatic features, which are aligned and integrated into culturally responsive, student-centered teaching and learning practices and environments. Community Schools Overview (3)

The four evidence-informed programmatic features are: Community Schools Overview (4) Integrated support services; Family and community engagement; Collaborative leadership and practices for educators; and Extended learning time and opportunities.

California Community Schools Framework: Four Pillars Key Conditions for Learning Cornerstone Commitments Proven Practices Key Roles Community Schools Overview (5)

Legislation: CCSPP Overview (1) California Community Schools Partnership Act California Education Code Sections 8900 8902 and the Budget Act of 2021 and 2022.

In 2021, the California legislature allocated $3,015,997,000 for the CCSPP to establish new and expand existing community schools, through June 2028. CCSPP Overview (2) In 2022, the legislature added $1,132,554,000 for the CCSPP and extending the funding through June 2031. The CCSPP includes three different grant opportunities and builds a technical assistance system.

One of the three grant opportunities funded through the CCSPP is the Planning Grant. The planning grant provided funding for local educational agencies (LEAs) to develop an implementation plan. CCSPP Overview (3) There were two rounds of planning grants, the final round has passed, the California Department of Education (CDE) is currently reviewing those applications and will present them to the State Board of Education next month.

The second grant opportunity are the Implementation Grants: Multiple rounds (there will be a third and most likely a fourth cohort) This year is Cohort 2 o July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2028 Annual grants up to $500,000 per school site For new, expanding or continuing community schools CCSPP Overview (4)

A Community school means a public school serving preschool, kindergarten, or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and includes the following: Community School Defined (1) Integrated support services, including the coordination of health, mental health, and social services that ensure coordination and support with county and local educational agency resources, and early screening and intervention for learning and other needs.

Family and community engagement, which may include home visits, home-school collaboration, community partnerships, and school climate surveys. Community School Defined (2) Collaborative leadership and practices for educators, including professional development to support mental and behavioral health, trauma-informed care, social-emotional learning, restorative justice, and other key areas.

Community School Defined (3) Extended learning time and opportunities, including before and after school care.

The CDE is accepting applications from LEAs for the CCSPP implementation grants. Grant Application Review (1) For the purposes of the CCSPP, an LEA is defined as a: school district, county office of education, or charter school.

The CCSPP provides funding for an implementation grant period beginning on July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2028. Grant Application Review (2) The total grant budget for the current CCSPP Implementation Grant Request for Applications is up to $750,000,000.

The intent of the CCSPP Implementation Grant is to support LEAs to plan for, implement, and help coordinate community schools. Intent (1)

Funding may be used for any of the following purposes: Staffing, including, but not limited to, a community school coordinator. Coordinating and providing support services to pupils and families at or near community schools, including through childcare, expanded learning time before and after school, and during school intersessions. Intent (2)

Providing training and support to LEA personnel, and partner agency personnel on integrating school-based pupil supports, social-emotional well- being, trauma-informed practices, and establishing sustainable community school funding sources. Designing and executing educator, family, pupil, and community stakeholder engagement strategies. Intent (4)

Ongoing data collection and program evaluations. Implementing a sustainability plan. Securing various long-term funding streams and commitments from partners that will continue to provide financial assistance and/or other means of support. Intent (5)

Building capacity around sustainability and other efforts to support ongoing community school programming. Conducting a comprehensive school and community needs and asset assessment to support a continuous improvement process. Intent (6)

The applicant must be an LEA that meets any of the following: At least 50% of the enrolled pupils at the educational agency are unduplicated Eligibility Criteria (1) The LEA has higher than state average dropout rates. The LEA has higher than state average rates of suspension and expulsion. The LEA has higher than state average rates of child homelessness, foster youth, or justice-involved youth.

Funding priorities: 1. Applicants serving students in schools in which at least 80 percent of the pupil population are unduplicated pupils. Competitive Priorities (1) 2. Applicants with a demonstrated need for expanded access to integrated services, including those disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Funding priorities (continued): 3. Applicants that involve students, parents, certificated and classified school staff, and cooperating agency personnel in the process of identifying the needs of students and families, and in the planning of support services to be offered. Competitive Priorities (2)

Funding priorities (continued): 4. Applicants that commit to providing trauma-informed health, mental health, and social services for students within a Multi-Tiered System of Support at school site or an adjacent location, and partner with other schools, school districts, county agencies, or nongovernmental organizations. Competitive Priorities (3)

Funding priorities (continued): 5. Applicants that serve elementary school pupils, or for schools where there is a demonstrated need for childcare, including, but not limited to, programs for pregnant and parenting teens, commit to providing early care and education services for children from birth to five years of age, inclusive, through one or more LEAs or community-based organizations. Competitive Priorities (4)

Funding priorities (continued): 6. Applicants that identify a cooperating agency collaboration process, including cosignatories, a mechanism for sharing governance, which may include a plan to use existing or create shared decision- making teams that include pupils, families, educators, and community-based organizations, and for integrating or redirecting existing resources and other school support services. Competitive Priorities (5)

Funding priorities (continued): 7. Applicants that plan to support a network of site-based community schools at school sites that have the capacity to ensure that services, professional development, and engagement can occur on school site, or at an adjacent location, with the support of community-based organizations and other relevant providers, for all relevant stakeholders. Competitive Priorities (7)

Funding priorities (continued): 8. Applicants that identify a plan to sustain community school services after grant expiration, including by maximizing reimbursement for services from available sources, including, but not limited to, the LEA Medi-Cal Billing Option Program, School-Based Medi-Cal Administrative Activities program, and reimbursable mental health specialty care services provided under the federal Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396d(a)(4)(B)). Competitive Priorities (8)

In January 2022, the State Board of Education approved an additional priority: Competitive Priorities (9) 9. Applicants serving small and rural schools.

The award amount for the CCSPP implementation grant shall not exceed $500,000 annually for a five-year period. Funding Levels The grant requires a local match equal to one-third (33%) of the grant amount. The local match can be contributed in cash or as services/resources of comparable value.

Allowable and Non- Allowable Costs and Activities Please review the list of allowable and non-allowable costs and activities in the Request for Applications.

The long-term measure of success for the CCSPP is the establishment and expansion of learning supports and practices, systems and related capacity building, as well as strong partnerships to better serve the needs of students and families, resulting in improved student outcome measures. Program Outcome Measures Implementation grantees are expected to fully engage the community and update their implementation plan(s) annually.

Date Activity January 24, 2023 RFA Release Date Applications must be received by the CDE, no later than 11:59 p.m. PST March 21, 2023 Timeline (1) March-April 2023 May 2023 Scoring of Applications Grantees Announced Two weeks after grantee announcement Appeals must be received at the CDE

Date Activity Grant Award Notification Letters Released June 2023 Timeline (2) July 1, 2023 Project Term Began August 2023 Disbursement of Funds June 30, 2028 All Funds Must be Expended

Date Activity Grant Award Notification Letter Signed by Grantee and Received by the CDE Reporting Requirements June 2023 June 30 annually (beginning in 2024) Mid-Project Progress Report, Sustainability Report, and Mid- Project Expenditure Report Due End-of-Project Report and Expenditure Report Due June 30, 2028

For application submission instructions, please see the Application Submission Procedures Section in the Request for Applications. Application Submission (1) The CCSPP application is submitted in two parts:

Part 1: Application Submission (2) Submission of the 2022 23 CCSPP Application Questionnaire (online)

Part 2: An email to the CDE (CCSPP@cde.ca.gov) containing the following: Form A: Applicant Info Sheet Form B: Project Abstract Attachment I: LEA and Site Participation Sheet Attachment II: Implementation Plan(s) Attachment III: Artifacts Attachment IV: Program Budget Application Submission (3)

Both parts of the application must be complete and submitted to the CDE (CCSPP@cde.ca.gov) no later than 11:59 p.m. PDT on March 21, 2023. Application Submission (4)

Program web page: https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/gs/hs/ccspp.a sp Resources Request for Applications: https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r17/ccsppi g22rfa.asp Questions: CCSPP@cde.ca.gov

To ask a question, please either: Type your question in the Q&A chat, or Use the raise hand feature, and staff will unmute you. Question and Answer