OAR 581-017-0756: LGBTQ2SIA+ Student Success Plan Grant Program: Criteria

(1) The Department will award Grants to eligible entities based on the following criteria: (a) Whether the proposed project successfully implements the strategies provided in the LGBTQ2SIA+ Student Success Plan; (b) Whether the applicant authentically and consistently engages Community Voice in the proposed project; and (c) Whether the applicant demonstrates equitable distribution of Grant funds and resources in Partnership. (2) The Department may give priority to applications that: (a) Are led by Culturally Specific or Community-Based Organizations that represent LGBTQ2SIA+ communities; (b) Demonstrate authentic and on-going Partnerships with Community-Based Organizations, Culturally Specific Organizations, early learning hubs, providers of early learning services, school districts, educational service districts, public charter schools, Tribal governments, post-secondary institutions of education, or a consortium of these entities that serve LGBTQ2SIA+ communities; (c) Will help ensure geographic diversity of the Grant program by including rural communities or other underserved communities with LGBTQ2SIA+ student populations; (d) Address a strategy of the LGBTQ2SIA+ Student Success Plan that requires additional support, as determined by the Department; (e) Address strategies that are common across the African American/Black Student Success Plan, Latino/a/x and Indigenous Student Success Plan, and/or the American Indian/Alaska Native Student Success Plan and communities; (f) Address the intersectionality of the student populations served by the LGBTQ2SIA+ student success plan with the other student success plans within ODE; or (g) Provide a plan for the authentic and meaningful voice and choice of plan youth are engaged in program development, evaluation and implementation.