Grants

Professional Grant Writing/Funding Support Services

Proven Grant-Writing Success:

Howie has written federal, state, and foundation grants that have been awarded over $40 million during his career. He understands the grant writing process, and he most often writes grants for districts, schools, and other education-related agencies who want to use him as a consultant to help implement his school improvement (or other) strategies. At the same time, Howie is always happy to coordinate and write grant proposals in areas where his services are not needed.

An Upcoming Federal Grant Opportunity: School-Based Mental Health Services (August, 2025)

July 22, 2025

The U.S. Department of Education recently published its first draft of the renewed School-Based Mental Health Services (SBMH) Grant (ALN 84.184H). Right now, it is open for the next 30 days for comments, it will then be finalized, and it should be published (my estimate) sometime in late 2025 or early 2026. 

   Here's a quick overview of what we're looking at: 

The Big Picture: The grant centers around recruiting and supporting individuals to become school psychologists who will specialize in mental health prevention and intervention, particularly within high-need school districts.  

Our Approach: We want to partner with and write proposals with as many school districts across the country as possible. These districts will either (a) recruit school psychologists with the Grant's support; and/or (b) identify and sponsor school psychology candidates from within their own staff (e.g., general or special education teachers, counselors or BCBAs, or even interventionists or administrators with a passion for mental health) to pursue school psychology training. 

Our Role: Relative to the respecialization of existing faculty, we have approached a number of NASP-approved School Psychology Programs with a virtual/on-line certification programs to partner with us on the Grant. To maintain flexibility, we are hoping that up to five NASP-approved Programs will participate with us. . . each one accepting multiple candidates in up to three consecutive cohorts. 

Funding Focus: The grant prioritizes sustainable strategies for recruitment and retention, and expanding access to intensive, early intervention mental health services. 

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A Sample of Howie's Previously-Funded Grants:

   MOST with Multiple Different Grant Awards

  • School Climate Transformation Grant (Federal grant program for districts and schools)
  • Personnel Preparation grants (Federal grant program for University Training Programs)
  • Title I grants (Federal and State grant program for districts and schools)
  • Safe Schools/Healthy Students grants (Federal grant program for districts and schools)
  • National School Improvement Dissemination grant (Federal grant program for districts and schools)
  • State Personnel Development Grants (SPDG; Federal grant program for State Departments of Education)
  • Elementary and Secondary Counseling Grant (Federal grant program for districts and schools)
  • Safe and Drug-Free School grants (Federal and State grant program for districts and schools)
  • Foundation Grants (e.g., for Metropolitan Life, the Kellogg Foundation)