OAR 581-014-0025: Purpose of Optional Targets for Mental and Behavioral Health for the Student Investment Account

(1) This rule set establishes optional targets related to student mental and behavioral health outcomes eligible applicants may consider setting to monitor and evaluate Student Investment Account investments in mental and behavioral health. Optional targets are inclusive of local optional metrics and optional progress markers as named in the definition section. (2) Local optional metrics are designed to allow eligible applicants to set and monitor metrics that are connected to expected outcomes set forward in an eligible applicants’ plan. (3) Optional progress markers are sets of indicators set forth in an eligible applicants’ plan that identify the kinds of changes that ODE would expect to see in policies, practices, behaviors, and approaches over time that lead to an eligible applicant reaching planned outcomes. (4) Optional targets are intended to provide grantees with a means to address how investments might show positive impacts in student and/or educator well-being, belonging, and health which could include a measure of school culture or climate. Any optional targets addressing social emotional learning, trauma-informed principles and practices, systems of care, the whole child, and/or school safety and prevention systems could be included.