50 School Districts and BOCES Receive Grants to Address Learning Loss and Support Mental Health Services
Furthers the Governor’s Commitment to Expand Mental Health Support in Schools
Governor Kathy Hochul awarded $100 million for 50 school districts and BOCES to address pandemic learning loss and provide students with mental health support. The funding will expand student access to evidence-based interventions to combat learning loss and also help staff and students identify and respond to mental health concerns. Today’s announcement builds on Governor Hochul’s priority to expand mental health support for students.
“New York is making historic investments to ensure all our students are on the path towards success,” Governor Hochul said. “This funding will help our teachers and school staff pinpoint where students have fallen behind and provide students with the crucial resources needed to support their mental health, especially after the pandemic.”
15 school districts and BOCES across the state have received the Learning Loss Recover from COVID School Program (RECOVS) Grant. The funding will expand student access to academic recovery professionals to counter learning loss; improve capacity for school staff and students to identify learning loss; implement evidence-based and evidence-informed school-based learning loss and academic recovery practices; and ensure financial stability for school-based academic recovery opportunities.
40 school districts and BOCES have received the Mental Health RECOVS grant that expands and supports practices that promotes mental health and wellness, improves capacity for staff and students to identify mental health concerns and increase help-seeking behaviors, and promotes student diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Since taking office, Governor Hochul has increased school funding by record amounts – a total of $5 billion over two years. This year, Governor Hochul is proposing $35.3 billion in total School Aid, the highest amount in New York State’s history. The FY 2024 Budget provided a historic $34.5 billion to New York’s schools to help give every student the tools to succeed through a high-quality education.
Addressing youth mental health concerns has always been a priority for Governor Hochul and is a critical component of her historic $1 billion plan to enhance, expand and strengthen mental health services across the State. Her plan includes $30 million to expand mental health services for school-aged children, including $20 million for school-based mental health services and $10 million to implement wraparound services training, as well as regulatory changes to close gaps in insurance coverage for mental health care and substance use disorder services. This includes requiring commercial insurance plans to cover services provided in school-based mental health clinics. The Governor also announced the creation of new Home-Based Crisis Intervention teams and expansion of existing teams, which provide critical mental health services to at-risk children and youth and help them avoid psychiatric hospitalization.
Last summer, the Governor hosted the State’s first Summit on Youth Mental Health, which brought together state and national experts as well as service providers and stakeholders to discuss the challenges young people face today. She also directed the NYS Office of Mental Health and Office of Children and Family Services to conduct a statewide Listening Tour on Youth Mental Health to hear directly from kids across the state about their experiences with mental health care, and how the system can be strengthened.
In this year’s State of the State address, Governor Hochul proposed measures that will dramatically expand access to services for children, youth and families. The proposals include establishing school-based mental health clinics for any school that wants one, introducing legislation to limit social media features that are harmful to young people, establishing new Youth Assertive Community Treat (ACT) teams, and expanding loan repayment programs for children’s mental health practitioners.
In August 2023, Governor Hochul announced $100 million was available for school districts through the Learning Loss and Mental Health RECOVS Program.
Pandemic Learning Loss RECOVS awardees:
School Districts/BOCES | Award Amount |
Amityville School District | $1,030,422 |
Broome Tioga BOCES | $4,147,183 |
Buffalo City School District | $2,883,515 |
Clyde-Savannah Central School District | $1,188,000 |
Cuba-Rushford Central School | $308,298 |
Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES | $667,742 |
Hempstead Union Free School District | $5,000,000 |
Lyons Central School District | $1,373,141 |
New York City Public Schools | $19,722,761 |
Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District | $2,400,000 |
Sodus Central School District | $1,308,000 |
Solvay Union Free School District | $1,187,298 |
Syracuse City School District | $5,000,000 |
Watertown City School District | $1,783,640 |
Yonkers City School District | $2,000,000 |
Mental Health RECOVS awardees:
School Districts/BOCES | Award Amount |
Auburn Enlarged City School District | $828,421 |
Baldwinsville Central School District | $568,022 |
Bellmore Union Free School District | $431,724 |
Buffalo City School District | $5,000,000 |
Canajoharie Central School District | $163,602 |
Carmel Central School District | $227,432 |
Clarence Central School District | $921,702 |
Dryden Central School District | $231,820 |
Dunkirk City School District | $290,572 |
East Quogue Union Free School District | $663,180 |
Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES | $364,202 |
Freeport Union Free School District | $1,344,000 |
Gouverneur Central School | $508,336 |
Gowanda Central School District | $182,733 |
Haverstraw-Stony Point Central School District | $3,499,312 |
Hendrick Hudson School District | $474,770 |
Iroquois Central School District | $200,000 |
Liverpool Central School District | $3,925,110 |
Lyons Central School District | $1,368,357 |
Monroe 1 BOCES | $373,262 |
Moravia Central School District | $360,880 |
Oneida City School District | $1,000,000 |
Peekskill City School District | $2,207,130 |
Pine Bush Central School District | $503,829 |
Red Hook Central School District | $786,400 |
Rochester City School District | $1,266,800 |
Roxbury Central School District | $231,440 |
Saranac Central School District | $2,487,466 |
Schenectady City School District | $2,491,944 |
Schodack Central School District | $151,852 |
Shenendehowa Central School District | $248,581 |
South Country Central School District | $252,500 |
South Glens Falls | $2,560,877 |
Southern Westchester BOCES | $2,347,319 |
Syracuse City School District | $5,000,000 |
Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES | $702,556 |
Tonawanda City School District | $1,250,106 |
Wappingers Central School District | $2,527,780 |
Williamsville Central School District | $55,983 |
Yonkers City School District | $2,000,000 |
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