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Lilly Endowment Planning Grant for Comprehensive Counseling Initiative

Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation has received a planning grant of $50,000 under Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Comprehensive Counseling Initiative for Indiana K-12 Students.  The aim of the Counseling Initiative is to increase significantly the number of K-12 students in Indiana public school corporations and charter schools who are emotionally healthy, realize academic success, graduate from high school, obtain valuable postsecondary credentials, certifications and degrees necessary for meaningful employment and are prepared to compete and prosper in the global society in which they will live and work.

 

P-H-M filed for the planning grant independently, but will collaborate with our fellow St. Joseph County school districts, School City of Mishawaka and South Bend Community School Corporation, for the planning and implementation of this grant. While all three public school entities operate independently, we see the imperative need to work collectively and collaboratively on behalf of the students within St. Joseph County.  Within the three school corporations, there are approximately 33,000 students. This collective venture will enable us to address specific needs and areas of additional support that will help us to address our students' needs in academic, social/emotional and College and Career Readiness. Collectively our school districts have countless state and national partnerships. However, this implementation grant will allow us to coordinate efforts, combine resources and work together instead of competitively against one another.

 

Penn-Harris-Madison is one of 284 Indiana public school corporations and charter schools in Indiana receiving planning grants through the initiative.

 

In addition to helping public school corporations and charter schools assess their current counseling programs and identify best practices in comprehensive counseling efforts, planning grants will help recipients prepare implementation grant proposals to fund their strategies to improve their counseling programs. Implementation grant proposals are due to Lilly Endowment by May 19, 2017. Applicants may request up to $100 per enrolled student, and amounts of the implementation grants will range from $100,000 to $3 million. The implementation grant phase is competitive. Notification of implementation grant approvals is expected by Sept. 30, 2017.  

 

Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family - J.K. Lilly Sr. and sons J.K. Jr. and Eli - through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly & Company. The Endowment is primarily committed to the causes of community development, education and religion and has a special commitment to its hometown, Indianapolis, and its home state, Indiana. Learn more at http://www.lillyendowment.org/.