TOPIC: Financing and Funding: General Material

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Briefs and Links
• Grants, Call for Papers, Call for Presenters
• Surfing for Funds
• Using Federal Education Legislation in Moving Toward a Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approach to Addressing Barriers to Learning (e.g., Creating a Cohesive System of Learning Supports)
• What will it cost? - No New Dollars!

Publications
• Fiscal cliff threatens student/learning supports: It's time to braid and rethink resource use.
• Mapping a School's Resources to Improve Their Use in Preventing and Ameliorating Problems

Center Policy & Program Analysis Briefs and Notes
• Rethinking District Budgets to Unify and Sustain a Critical Mass of Student and Learning Supports at Schools
• Designing Schoolwide Programs in Title I Schools: Using the Non-Regulatory Guidance in Ways that Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Financing Mental Health for Children & Adolescents
• Cut-Backs Make it Essential to Unify and Rework Student and Learning Supports at Schools and Among Families of Schools
• Balancing Cut-backs at Schools is Essential to Ensuring Equity of Opportunity
• Guidelines, Models, Resources & Policy Considerations

Information Resource
• Costs of Not Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Funding Stream Integration to Promote Development and Sustainability of a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Inequitable Funding in Public Education

Policy & Guidance Notes
• An Aid for Initial Listing of Current Resources Used at a School for Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Analyzing What is Being Spent in Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• COVID-19 is Killing District/School Budgets: What to Do and Not to Do about Student/Learning Supports

Introductory Packets
• Financial Strategies to Aid in Addressing Barriers to Learning

Quick Training Aid
• Quick Training Aid: Financing Strategies to Address Barriers to Learning

Net Exchange
• Funding for Doing and Enhancing the Work

Finding Funding Sources
• Financial sustainability assessment tool
• Federal funding streams and strategies to improve conditions for learning
• Overview of Office of Justice Programs Grants and Funding
• State Funding Programs for High-Cost Special Education Students
• Supplemental Security Income: State Trends in Applications, Allowances, and Benefit Receipts for Children with Mental Impairments (June 2012)
• U.S. Department of Education List of Funding Opportunities

Funding Tips
• Fixing Chronic Disinvestment in K-12 Schools
• Funding school based mental health
• A road map to quality collective impact programming with fiscal independence
• Training School Leaders to Spend Wisely

General
• Aligned resources
• Child Welfare: States Use Flexible Federal Funds, But Struggle to Meet Service Needs. GAO-13-170, Janurary 30
• Fiscal Federalism & K–12 Education Funding: Policy Lessons From Two Educational Crises
• Findings from the School Finance Indicators Database, School Year 2015-2016
• How money matters for schools
• Increased Government Funding Recognizes the Need for Strong Community School Technical Assistance
• Measuring Social Return on Investment for Community Schools
• Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education
• School vs. District Level Views of School Spending Inequality
• Segregation and School Funding: How Housing Discrimination Reproduces Unequal Opportunity
• A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide: Developing a Comprehensive Financing Plan

Medicaid
• Overview Medicaid Program

Mental Health
• Mental Health Care for Youth: Who Gets It? How Much Does it Cost? Who Pays? Where Does the Money Go?

Schools and Communities
• The Effect of School Finance Reforms on the Distribution of Spending, Academic Achievement, and Adult Outcomes
• Federal Education Funding: Overview of K-12 and Early Childhood Education Programs
• How Fair Is School Funding in Your State?
• How money matters for schools
• Measuring Social Return on Investment for Community Schools
• Segregation and School Funding: How Housing Discrimination Reproduces Unequal Opportunity
• Toward Better Behavioral Health for Children, Youth and their Families: Financing that Supports Knowledge

• Afterschool Alliance
• Department of Education: Grants
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Government Organizations with Grants and Other Funding Sources
• Grants.gov
• Office of the Chief Financial Officer: Grants Information

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