The Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program awards five-year grants to states, districts, or other organizations to help partner schools implement community schools. Community schools are intended to serve as hubs that coordinate and integrate a wide range of services and supports that meet the unique needs of students and communities. This study snapshot charts FSCS’s progress in two foundational areas: early activities that grantees must help partner schools complete and partnerships that grantees must finalize with local providers to deliver essential services to children in community schools. The snapshot uses survey data collected from FSCS grantees from July through September 2023, midway through the first year of the grants awarded in December 2022.
Findings include:
- In the first months of their 5-year grant period, most grantees reported that all partner schools had hired a coordinator. However, progress was limited on other early implementation activities including training coordinators, conducting a needs assessment, and establishing a school-based leadership team.
- More than a third of grantees reported that their partners were finalized, but many grantees either had made or planned to make changes to the original list of partner organizations in their grant application.
To access the study snapshot, please visit Laying the Foundation: Progress on Early Full-Service Community Schools Grant Implementation Activities.
