Montgomery County Educational Service CE

Montgomery County Educational Service CE, a local government entity headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, operates as a recipient of federal education and behavioral health grants, holding three prime grant awards and serving as a sub-recipient on fifty-one federal grant awards across education, mental health, and family services programs. The organization does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; its federal footprint is entirely grant-funded.

Montgomery County Educational Service CE's recent federal work centers on K–12 education support, early childhood mental health services, and targeted assistance for refugee and disadvantaged student populations. The organization received a $1 million, four-year Project Grant (CFDA 93.104, Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances) from the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, awarded September 30, 2026, to establish a coordinated behavioral health system for children from birth to age five with or at risk for serious emotional disturbance in Montgomery County. The project will serve 1,200 children through care coordination and 89 through specialized mental health services over the award period through September 29, 2030, implementing single-point-of-access care coordination, cross-system governance, trauma-informed evidence-based practices, integrated case management, universal screening, workforce development, and digital behavioral health infrastructure.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of Education. The top five funding agencies account for 96% of awards. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education anchors the portfolio with 24 awards, and the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services contributes 20 awards. These two ED sub-offices together represent 44 of 54 total awards. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and SAMHSA round out the active customer set. Montgomery County Educational Service CE acts as sub-recipient under Ohio state administrative entities—chiefly the Ohio Department of Education, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, and the Executive Office of the State of Ohio—on grants supporting early literacy, special education, priority school supports, urban regional literacy, early learning discretionary programs, refugee and Afghan school impact initiatives, Title III English learner instruction, and American Rescue Plan education emergency relief. One sub-award flows through Research Triangle Institute for unspecified technical services.

Activity has grown from six awards in 2022 to twelve in 2024, with a decline to seven in 2025 and recovery to ten in 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $38.3 million over the organization's recorded grant footprint dating to 2009. The organization does not compete for federal contracts, sit on government-wide acquisition vehicles, or operate as a prime contractor. Its entire federal revenue model is built on pass-through grant funding from federal agencies to state governments and state-designated regional education support centers.