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Title I, Part D: Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk

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Title I, Part D Overview

About

Title I, Part D, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended, also called the Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth who are Neglected, Delinquent or At-Risk Act, provides financial assistance to educational programs for youths in state-operated institutions or community day programs. The program also provides financial assistance to support school division programs involving collaboration with locally operated correctional facilities.

Goals

The goals of all agencies that receive Title I, Part D, funds are to:

  1. to improve educational services for children and youth in local, tribal, and State institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth so that such children and youth have the opportunity to meet the same challenging State academic standards that all children in the State are expected to meet;
  2. to provide such children and youth with the services needed to make a successful transition from institutionalization to further schooling or employment; and
  3. to prevent at-risk youth from dropping out of school, and to provide dropouts, and children and youth returning from correctional facilities or institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth, with a support system to ensure their continued education and the involvement of their families and communities.

Subpart 1:  State agency programs

Title I, Part D, pursues the goals through two programs: Subpart 1 and Subpart 2.

  • Under state education agency (SEA) programs, VDOE awards subgrants to state agencies based on their proportional share of the commonwealth's adjusted enrollment count of neglected or delinquent children and youths in state-operated institutions.
  • A state agency is eligible for assistance under this subpart if the state agency is responsible for providing free public education for children and youth:
    • in institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth;
    • attending community day programs for neglected or delinquent children and youth; or
    • in adult correctional institutions.
  • Using Title I, Part D, Subpart 1 funds, the Virginia Department of Education supports educational services to help children identified as failing or at-risk of failing state standards and supplements and improves educational services provided to children in state operated institutions for neglected and delinquent youth.
  • Subpart 1 funds are allocated to two state agencies:

Subpart 2:  Local agency programs

Title I, Part D, pursues the goals through two programs: Subpart 1 and Subpart 2.

Under local education agency (LEA) programs, the Virginia Department of Education awards subgrants to school divisions with the highest numbers of children and youth in locally operated juvenile correctional facilities, including facilities involved in community day programs.

Using Subpart 2 funds, the Virginia Department of Education supports LEA programs that involve collaboration between LEAs and locally operated delinquent facilities to:

  1. to carry out high quality education programs to prepare children and youth for secondary school completion, training, employment, or further education;
  2. to provide activities to facilitate the transition of such children and youth from the correctional program to further education or employment; and
  3. to operate programs in local schools, including schools operated or funded by the Bureau of Indian Education, for children and youth returning from correctional facilities, and programs which may serve at-risk children and youth.

Resources

2024 Title I, Part D Applications

Each Title I, Part D program is required to complete a Title I, Part D application to request funding to provide students served with a high-quality and comprehensive educational program to meet their unique needs and help them obtain the same challenging state academic content and student achievement standards that are expected of all children and youth.

2024 Title I, Part D Applications (zipped file)

Subpart 1 applications are for state agencies.

Subpart 2 applications are for local education agencies.

Subpart 2 Allocations

Division program coordinators should contact their program specialist for information about the application for federal funds.

Memoranda from Virginia State Superintendent to school division superintendents:

2023-2024 

Revised Allocations

Allocations

2022-2023 

Revised Allocations

Allocations

2021-2022

2020-2021

Definitions

  • ADULT CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION – The term 'adult correctional institution' means a facility in which persons (including persons under 21 years of age) are confined as a result of a conviction for a criminal offense.
  • AT-RISK – The term 'at-risk,' when used with respect to a child, youth, or student, means a school aged individual who is at-risk of academic failure, dependency adjudication, or delinquency adjudication, has a drug or alcohol problem, is pregnant or is a parent, has come into contact with the juvenile justice system in the past, is at least 1 year behind the expected grade level for the age of the individual, is an English learner, is a gang member, has dropped out of school in the past, or has a high absenteeism rate at school.
  • COMMUNITY DAY PROGRAM – The term 'community day program' means a regular program of instruction provided by a State agency at a community day school operated specifically for neglected or delinquent children and youth.
  • INSTITUTION FOR NEGLECTED OR DELINQUENT CHILDREN AND YOUTH: 
    • Neglected Institution: a public or private residential facility, other than a foster home, that is operated for the care of children who have been committed to the institution or voluntarily placed in the institution under applicable State law, due to abandonment, neglect, or death of their parents or guardians; or
    • Delinquent Institution: a public or private residential facility for the care of children who have been adjudicated to be delinquent or in need of supervision.

(Source: Public Law 114-95 – Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, Title I, Part D – Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk; Subpart 3 – General Provisions; Section 1432 – Definitions)