Participating School Districts 

• Cornell
  • Cornell School District to open wellness rooms through Project SEEKS SES grant
  • Cornell Wellness Rooms help strengthen the district's mental/behavioral health supports
• Duquesne City
  • Duquesne to expand Pressley Ridge services through Project SEEKS SES
  • Shannon Keating makes a big difference as Duquesne City's Behavior Support and Intervention Specialist
  • BEST program helps Duquesne City emotional support students blossom
• East Allegheny 
  • SEEKS-funded behavior specialists making a big difference at East Allegheny
  • SEEKS-funded pEAce Place to serve as wellness space at East Allegheny Junior/Senior High School
• Highlands
  • Highlands School District holds anti-bullying assemblies through SEEKS funds
  • Be The Kind Kid Club fills Highlands Elementary with joy 
• McKeesport
  • McKeesport Area School District forms YESS team through Project SEEKS SES grant
  • McKeesport Area School District YESS Team makes a big impact on the district's students
• Penn Hills
  • Penn Hills provides SEEKS-SES funded mediation training
  • At Penn Hills School District, an alternative to suspension program helps students find a new direction
• Steel Valley
  • Project SEEKS SES grant gives Steel Valley resources to help address social-emotional learning
• Sto-Rox
  • VIBE Anti-Violence Team Funded By New SEEKS Program
  • SEEKS-funded V.I.B.E program making a big impact at Sto-Rox
• West Mifflin
  • West Mifflin School District to create The Holistic Titan Sanctuary through SEEKS SES grant  
• Woodland Hills
  • Woodland Hills furthers mentorship program focus through SEEKS funds
  • Calming rooms open at Edgewood, Turtle Creek Elementary STEAM Academies

Participating Higher Education Partners

• Chatham University
  • Chatham University to provide free Youth Mental Health First Aid Training through Project SEEKS SES
  • Chatham University pushes career education with CRAFT Your Career program
  • Chatham University to hold Social, Emotional, and Wellness (SEW) Talks
• Duquesne University
  • Duquesne University students implement SEL curriculum in three school districts
• University of Pittsburgh
  • The University of Pittsburgh holds "Power of Hope" workshop
  • The University of Pittsburgh promotes staff wellness & outdoor learning with forest bathing workshop
  • The Office of Child Development pushes countywide SEL initiative through picture books
  • The Office of Child Development helps spread SEL through educator community of practice 
  • Building a Social-emotional Learning Ecosystem
  • University of Pittsburgh takes teaching students to SXSW EDU
  • University of Pittsburgh SEL community of practice brings together large group at the AIU

Contact Us

Shannon Fagan, Project SEEKS SES Coordinator

412-909-7448

Jeremy Tepper, Communications Specialist

412-654-0856

Countless Community Partners

Including, but not limited to:

• Allies for Children
• Hillman Family Foundations
• Pressley Ridge
• Community Care Behavioral Health
• Allegheny Health Network
• Office of Behavioral Health Allegheny County
• Allegheny County Department of Human Services
• Office of Child Development at the University of Pittsburgh
  • "I’m very optimistic and excited": Project SEEKS SES and the Office of Child Development partnering together
• Allegheny County Department of Children’s Initiatives
• UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
• UPMC Children’s Hospital
• WQED
• The Jewish Healthcare Foundation
  • The Jewish Healthcare Foundation joins Project SEEKS SES as a community partner

Community of Practice meetings

Project SEEKS SES holds monthly community of practice meetings that focus on a shared topic of interest between school district, higher education and community partners. Below are links to the meetings that have occurred thus far.

• Steel Valley School District and Children's Hospital on chronic absenteeism
• Sto-Rox School District and Lee Davis on violence intervention
• Penn Hills School District and Pressley Ridge on the YESS team
• Duquesne City School District and the Office of Child Development on wellness methods
• Highlands School District on Handle with Care
• Cornell School District on wellness spaces
• Chatham University on YMHFA and tMHFA
• West Mifflin School District and the University of Pittsburgh on West Mifflin's fitness rooms

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Project SEEKS SES in the news

• Pittsburgh-area school districts to receive extra funding to address COVID-related trauma with students
• New programs in place to address students' COVID-related trauma in Pittsburgh-area schools
• $10 million going to help kids with emotional after-effects of COVID-19 pandemic
• Pittsburgh-area school districts use grant money to help with social and emotional support
• Mobile Rams Van aims to support social, emotional health of Highlands students
• New program at McKeesport Area School District focuses on making connections and addressing violence