Supporting Trauma-Informed Education Practices Act of 2026
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill rewrites the SUPPORT Act grant authority for trauma support services in educational settings. It lets the Secretary of Education, coordinating with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for school-connected trauma support and mental-health systems, including connections to Indian Health Service systems. It authorizes $50 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031, caps individual award periods at 5 years, reserves up to 3 percent for evaluation and up to 2 percent for technical assistance and administration, and requires equitable distribution across tribal, urban, suburban, and rural populations.
Who Benefits and How
Students, teachers, school leaders, school-based mental-health providers, local educational agencies, tribal educational agencies, the Bureau of Indian Education, Native Hawaiian educational organizations, and Child Care and Development Fund lead agencies benefit because the bill creates a dedicated funding stream for trauma-informed services, professional development, interagency agreements, early-childhood partnerships, family engagement, and full-service community school supports.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Education, HHS, grant applicants, and recipient educational agencies must administer applications, licensed-service assurances, local interagency agreements, evaluation participation, consultation with Tribes and Native Hawaiian educational organizations, and reporting-style program evaluation. Federal funds must supplement rather than replace other available funds.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes Education-HHS grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for evidence-based trauma support and school mental-health services.
- Funds the program at $50 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 and limits award payments to 5 years.
- Requires recipient applications to explain services, cultural and linguistic accessibility, school-climate supports, licensed providers, peer supports, disability access, and integration with existing school services.
- Requires local interagency agreements among schools, early-childhood agencies, Head Start agencies, juvenile justice authorities, mental-health agencies, child-welfare agencies, and other community partners.
- Directs independent evaluation, equitable geographic distribution, tribal consultation, and supplement-not-supplant treatment of federal funds.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Amends the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to authorize a 2027-2031 trauma-informed school mental-health grant program run by the Secretary of Education in coordination with HHS.
Key Policy Areas
Education, Healthcare, Tribal Nations
Primary Purpose
Amends the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to authorize a 2027-2031 trauma-informed school mental-health grant program run by the Secretary of Education in coordination with HHS.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Local educational agencies
- Tribal educational agencies
- Students receiving school mental-health services
- School-based mental health services providers
- Child Care and Development Fund lead agencies
Identified Costs
- Department of Education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Grant recipient educational agencies
- Community mental health agencies
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced in House
Mrs. Hayes (for herself, Ms. Brown, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Dingell, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Full-service community schools, Grant recipient educational agencies, Local educational agencies
Positive-direction: Full-service community schools, Local educational agencies, Students receiving school mental-health services
Negative-direction: Grant recipient educational agencies
Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services
Positive-direction: Department of Health and Human Services
Negative-direction: Department of Education
Community mental health agencies, School-based mental health services providers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "hhs_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Education
- "eligible_entity"
- → State educational agencies, local educational agencies, Indian Tribes, tribal educational agencies, Bureau of Indian Education, Regional Corporations, Native Hawaiian educational organizations, and CCDF lead agencies
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Includes State and local educational agencies, Indian Tribes or tribal educational agencies, the Bureau of Indian Education, Regional Corporations, Native Hawaiian educational organizations, and State, Territory, and Tribal CCDF lead agencies.
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