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Johnson Mella McCormick\u003Cbr>Follow this and additional works at: [https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/cepare_improvement](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/cepare_improvement) |  |\n\nRecommended Citation  \nJohnson, Amy F. and McCormick, Mella, \"Snapshot of Districts' Plans for Using Federal Relief Funds to Support Students Mental Health\" (2022) . School Improvement. 24.  \n[https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/cepare_improvement/24](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/cepare_improvement/24)  \nThis Study is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research and Evaluation (CEPARE) at USM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in School Improvement by an authorized administrator of USM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [jessica.c.hovey@maine.edu](jessica.c.hovey@maine.edu).  \nSnapshot of Districts' Plans for Using Federal Relief Funds to Support Student Mental Health  \nPrepared By:  \nAmy Johnson  \n[amyj@maine.edu](amyj@maine.edu)  \nMella McCormick  \n[mella.mccormick@maine.edu](mella.mccormick@maine.edu)  \nFebruary 2022  \nMaine Education Policy Research Institute  \nUniversity of Southern Maine  \nGorham, ME  \nSnapshot of Districts' Plans for Using Federal Relief Funds to Support Student Mental Health  \nAmy Johnson  \n[amyj@maine.edu](amyj@maine.edu)  \nMella McCormick  \n[mella.mccormick@maine.edu](mella.mccormick@maine.edu)  \nIntroduction  \nThis report was commissioned of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute (MEPRI) by the Maine Legislature’s Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs in the spring of 2021. At that time, there were widespread anecdotal reports that students' mental health was suffering after a year of disrupted schooling from the global coronavirus pandemic. With room left in our 2021-22 annual work plan for a small-scale study, MEPRI was asked to investigate how districts are taking advantage of their federal COVID-19 relief funds to add resources or supports for their students’ mental and emotional well-being.  \nThis limited summary builds on another, larger, MEPRI report undertaken in the same year that provided a national scan of innovative practices that schools had reported implementing during the year. The combination of these reports provides two different perspectives on districts’ efforts to support their students. However, even taken together, these studies do not encompass all activities that school districts have attempted during this pandemic year. Districts also had ongoing programs from before the pandemic that they continued to operate, or even expand, using local, state, or federal funds other than federal COVID-19 relief funding. In addition, this summary outlines how districts planned to make use of relief funds; the actual activities may have shifted during implementation.  \nBackground  \nIn rapid response to the enormous challenges that public schools faced at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government issued three different funding packages to provide them with additional resources. The first of these funding packages was the $816 .9M Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was passed by Congress in late March of 2020. In the face of ongoing struggles, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) was later added in December 2020 with an additional $200 .0M, including some support ($12 . 8M) for non-public schools. The third round of relief funds was the American Rescue Plan (ARP) which appropriated $423 . 8M in March of 2021 to Maine education.  \nEach of these three funding programs had similar allowable uses but with different areas of emphasis. 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