Park County School District 1

Park County School District #1, a Wyoming local government school district based in Powell, operates as a federal grant recipient (2% prime awards) and predominantly as a sub-recipient (98% of recent awards), delivering school-based mental health systems, career and technical education programs, child nutrition services, and special education support across federal grant programs administered through the Wyoming Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services.

The district's federal footprint centers on sub-recipient grants flowing from the Wyoming Department of Education across multiple U.S. Department of Education programs and the National School Lunch Program, with total obligated dollars of $16.1 million across 81 awards since 2006. The top five funding agencies account for 99% of recent awards: the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (43 awards), the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (17 awards), the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (10 awards), the Department of Education Office of Career Technical and Adult Education (8 awards), and the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2 awards). Most sub-recipient work carries monthly or quarterly disbursement cycles for child nutrition programs (National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program), career and technical education grants (Perkins V, CTE Cutting Edge, CTE Professional Development), and special education funding (IDEA Part B).

As a prime recipient, Park County School District #1 leads Wyoming Project STRONG, a $969,999 four-year project grant awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532) on September 30, 2026, with ultimate completion on September 29, 2030. Project STRONG implements a multi-district trauma-informed mental health initiative serving approximately 12,300 pre-K-12 students across three Wyoming public school districts in partnership with two additional local education agencies, community behavioral health providers, and other agency partners. The project establishes universal behavioral health screening targeting at least 75% of enrolled students annually, expands evidence-based Tier 2 intervention systems for students with emerging social, emotional, behavioral, or trauma-related concerns, and aims to increase referrals and successful linkage to behavioral health services by at least 30% over the grant period. Performance occurs in Powell, Wyoming, addressing gaps in early identification and school-linked mental health treatment that are acute in Wyoming's frontier and rural communities, where provider shortages, transportation barriers, and limited access to child and adolescent behavioral health services make schools the primary point of identification and referral for student mental health needs.

Activity has grown substantially — one award per year in 2022 and 2023 to twenty awards in 2024 and twenty-nine in 2025 — driven by the expansion of recurring sub-recipient allocations from Wyoming Department of Education programs and the recent addition of the SAMHSA-funded prime mental health systems grant.