Participating School Districts 

• Cornell
  • Cornell School District to open wellness rooms through Project SEEKS SES grant
• Duquesne
  • Duquesne to expand Pressley Ridge services through Project SEEKS SES
• East Allegheny 
• Highlands
  • Highlands School District holds anti-bullying assemblies through SEEKS funds 
• McKeesport
  • McKeesport Area School District forms YESS team through Project SEEKS SES grant
• Penn Hills
  • Penn Hills provides SEEKS-SES funded mediation training
• Steel Valley
• 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

Participating Higher Education Partners

• Chatham University
  • Chatham University to provide free Youth Mental Health First Aid Training through Project SEEKS SES
• Duquesne University
• University of Pittsburgh

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

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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