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This notice contains two absolute priorities, two competitive preference priorities, and two invitational priorities:

• Absolute Priority 1—Strengthening Cross-Agency Coordination and Community Engagement To Advance Systemic Change: Projects that are designed to take a systemic evidence-based approach to improving outcomes for underserved students in one or more of the following priority areas:
  • Coordinating efforts with Federal, State, or local agencies, or community-based organizations, that support students, to address two or more of the following:
    • Food assistance.
    • Housing.
    • Transportation.
    • Health, including physical health, mental health, and behavioral health and trauma.
    • Child care.
    • Technology.
  • Conducting community needs and asset mapping to identify existing programs and initiatives that can be leveraged, and new programs and initiatives that need to be developed and implemented, to advance systemic change.
  • Establishing cross-agency partnerships, or community-based partnerships with local nonprofit organizations, businesses, philanthropic organizations, or others, to meet family well-being needs.
• Absolute Priority 2—Promoting Equity in Student Access to Educational Resources and Opportunities: Under this priority, an application must demonstrate that the project will be implemented by one or more of the following entities: community colleges, HBCUs, TCUs, or an MSI.
• Competitive Preference Priority 1—Meeting Student Social, Emotional, and Academic Needs: Projects that are designed to improve students' social, emotional, academic, and career development, with a focus on underserved students through creating a positive, inclusive, and identity-safe climate at IHEs through one or both of the following activities:
  • Fostering a sense of belonging and inclusion for underserved students.
  • Implementing evidence-based practices for advancing student success for underserved students.
• Competitive Preference Priority 2—Increasing Postsecondary Education Access, Affordability, Completion, and Post-Enrollment Success: Projects that are designed to increase postsecondary access, affordability, completion, and success for underserved students by establishing a system of high-quality data collection and analysis.
• Invitational Priority 1—Leveraging Public Benefit Programs: Projects that include one or more of the following activities:
  • Establishing processes to automatically identify and conduct outreach to students who may be eligible for public benefit programs in accordance with recent Federal guidance.
  • Conducting ongoing and timely surveys and assessments of student basic needs security, including surveys of student needs conducted upon enrollment.
  • Providing referrals and case management to students to enroll in local, State, and Federal public benefit programs.
  • Coordinating and collaborating with government and community-based organizations and providing direct services such as temporary housing, secure sleeping arrangements, free or subsidized food, and access to child care.
• Invitational Priority 2—Developing a Campus-Wide Strategy To Address Student Mental Health Needs: projects that are designed to develop a campus-wide strategy to address student mental health needs.

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