DOEd: OSERS: Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities--Preparation of Early Intervention and Special Education Personnel Serving Children with Disabilities who have High-Intensity Needs

Overview

The Department of Education (Department) is issuing a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities—Preparation of Early Intervention and Special Education Personnel Serving Children with Disabilities who have High-Intensity Needs. The purposes of this program are to:
(1) help address State-identified needs for personnel preparation in special education, early intervention, related services, and regular education to work with children, including infants and toddlers, with disabilities; and

(2) ensure that those personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through scientifically based research and experience, to be successful in serving those children. 
This competition includes one absolute priority and one competitive preference priority.
Priorities

•The Absolute Priority for FY25 is: Preparation of Special Education, Preparation of Early Intervention and Special Education Personnel Serving Children with Disabilities who have High-Intensity Needs. The Department is committed to promoting equity for children with disabilities to access educational resources and opportunities.

The purpose of this priority is to prepare scholars who are fully credentialed to serve children, including infants, toddlers, and youth with disabilities (children with disabilities) who have high-intensity needs. The Department is committed to promoting equity for children with disabilities to access educational resources and opportunities. A priority for the Department is to increase the number of personnel, including increasing the number of multilingual personnel and personnel from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, who provide services to children with disabilities.
 

•    Competitive Preference Priority Is: Applications from New Potential Grantees (0 or 5 points). 
(a) Under this priority, an applicant must demonstrate that the applicant has not had an active discretionary grant under the ALN 84.325K, 84.325M, or 84.325R, including through membership in a group application submitted in accordance in the last five years before the deadline date for submission of applications under this program (ALN 84.325K).
(b) For the purpose of this priority, a grant is active until the end of the grant’s project or funding period, including any extensions of those periods that extend the grantee’s authority to obligate funds.

Applicants may not submit the same proposal under more than one focus area.

Pre-Application Webinar Information: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services will post details on pre-recorded informational webinars designed to provide technical assistance to interested applicants. Link to the webinars and PowerPoint Presentation may be found here: https://www.ed.gov/grants-and-programs/discretionary-grants/grants-special-populations/grants-students-disabilities/personnel-serving-children-with-disabilities-who-have-high-intensity-needs-84-325k#Resources