Sec. 203. Education and training grants
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The Secretary shall award grants to 20 eligible institutions of higher education to support the recruitment and education of social work students in baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degree programs and the professional development of social work faculty. The Secretary shall award to each of the 20 grant recipients under this section $200,000 per fiscal year for 4 consecutive fiscal years beginning with the first fiscal year that begins after the date of the enactment of this Act.
To be eligible for a grant under this section, an institution shall demonstrate that— the institution enrolls social work students from different racial, ethnic, cultural, geographic, religious, linguistic, and class backgrounds, and different genders and sexual orientations; and the institution has knowledge and understanding of the concerns of the groups described in paragraph (1). Not less than 4 of the grant recipients under this section shall be historically black colleges or universities or other minority-serving institutions.
In selecting grant recipients under this section, the Secretary shall give priority to institutions of higher education— that are accredited by the Council on Social Work Education; that have a graduation rate of not less than 80 percent for social work students; and that exhibit an ability to recruit social workers from, and place social workers in, areas with a high need and high demand population. There are authorized to be appropriated $16,000,000 to the Secretary to award grants under this section.