This bill amends the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to establish a grant program aimed at enhancing trauma support services and mental health care for children and youth within educational environments. The Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is authorized to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for up to five years. The primary goal is to increase access to evidence-based trauma support and mental health services by fostering connections between schools, local educational agencies, or tribal educational agencies and community trauma-informed support and mental health systems. Funds from these grants must be used for evidence-based initiatives, including developing collaborative efforts between schools and community mental health systems for prevention, referral, and treatment. They also support implementing trauma-informed models , providing professional development for school personnel on identifying and supporting students affected by trauma, and offering services at full-service community schools. Additionally, the grants can fund engaging families and communities to raise awareness of child and youth trauma, establishing partnerships with early childhood education programs, and creating programs to improve mental health and resiliency among school staff. Eligible entities applying for these grants must describe their proposed initiatives, ensuring they provide linguistically appropriate and culturally competent services and support improved school climate. Applications must also assure that service providers are licensed, stakeholders are engaged, and an evaluation will be conducted. The bill mandates the establishment of local interagency agreements among relevant agencies to coordinate services and specifies an authorization of $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031 to carry out these provisions.
Supporting Trauma-Informed Education Practices Act of 2024
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Education
Supporting Trauma-Informed Education Practices Act of 2026
USA119th CongressHR-7497| House
| Updated: 2/11/2026
This bill amends the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to establish a grant program aimed at enhancing trauma support services and mental health care for children and youth within educational environments. The Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is authorized to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for up to five years. The primary goal is to increase access to evidence-based trauma support and mental health services by fostering connections between schools, local educational agencies, or tribal educational agencies and community trauma-informed support and mental health systems. Funds from these grants must be used for evidence-based initiatives, including developing collaborative efforts between schools and community mental health systems for prevention, referral, and treatment. They also support implementing trauma-informed models , providing professional development for school personnel on identifying and supporting students affected by trauma, and offering services at full-service community schools. Additionally, the grants can fund engaging families and communities to raise awareness of child and youth trauma, establishing partnerships with early childhood education programs, and creating programs to improve mental health and resiliency among school staff. Eligible entities applying for these grants must describe their proposed initiatives, ensuring they provide linguistically appropriate and culturally competent services and support improved school climate. Applications must also assure that service providers are licensed, stakeholders are engaged, and an evaluation will be conducted. The bill mandates the establishment of local interagency agreements among relevant agencies to coordinate services and specifies an authorization of $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031 to carry out these provisions.