What's New The Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program pre-application technical assistance workshop presentation is now available. Updated information on the CCAMPIS selection criteria will be provided during two conference calls on Tuesday April 14, 2009. The FY 2009 application for CCAMPIS is available in Grants.gov. Deadline: May 8, 2009. The planned SSS competition has been delayed. At this time, the Department expects to have a closing date for SSS applications in spring or summer 2009 with new grants to begin in September 2010. Please read the Open Letter to All Potential Applicants under the SSS Program.

TRIO Programs

• Educational Opportunity Centers
• Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement
• Student Support Services
• Talent Search
• Training Program for Federal TRIO Programs Staff
• Upward Bound
• Upward Bound Math-Science
• Veterans Upward Bound

The Federal TRIO Programs are educational opportunity outreach programs designed to motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds. TRIO includes six outreach and support programs targeted to serve and assist low-income, first-generation college students, and students with disabilities to progress through the academic pipeline from middle school to postbaccalaureate programs. TRIO also includes a training program for directors and staff of TRIO projects and a dissemination partnership program to encourage the replication or adaptation of successful practices of TRIO projects at institutions and agencies that do not have TRIO grants.

• Child Care Access Means Parents in School
• Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program

• TRIO Staff
• TRIO History

News and Information

• The FY 2009 application for the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS) is available in Grants.gov. Applications available: April 8, 2009. Deadline: May 8, 2009.
• The Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program pre-application technical assistance workshop presentation is now available. Updated information on the CCAMPIS selection criteria will be provided during two conference calls on Tuesday April 14, 2009.
• The 2009 Annual Low Income Levels are available.
• The list of projects funded for 2008-09 are available for the following programs: EOC; Talent Search, and UB Math-Science, McNair, SSS, TRIO Training, UB Regular and Veterans, UB Math-Science, and CCAMPIS.
• The online APR data collection Web site for the UB programs became available December 15. Section II and the general instructions currently on TRIO's Web site now incorporate minor corrections in response to grantees' questions. Upward Bound Program information - Upward Bound Math-Science Program Information
• The planned Student Support Services (SSS) competition has been delayed. At this time, the Department of Education expects to have an application closing date for SSS applications in spring or summer 2009 with new grants to begin in September 2010. Please read the Open Letter to All Potential Applicants under the Student Support Services Program.
• A Profile of the Federal TRIO Programs and Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program: 2008 is available: MS Word (446K) | PDF (267K)
• The new 2008-2009 Training Opportunities for TRIO Programs' Personnel schedule is now available.
• An outcomes report for the 2004-05 cohort in Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math-Science is now available: PDF (256K) | MS Word (1.37Mb)

Upcoming Competitions for TRIO Funding

• Schedule
  • Educational Opportunity Centers - application deadline date, fall 2009; summer 2010 award date
  • Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement - application deadline date, fall 2010; summer 2011 award date
  • Student Support Services - application deadline date, summer 2009; spring/summer 2010 award date
  • Talent Search - application deadline date, fall 2009; summer 2010 award date
  • Training Program for Federal TRIO Programs - application deadline date, winter/spring 2010; summer 2010 award date
  • Upward Bound - application deadline date, summer/fall 2010; spring 2011 award date
  • Upward Bound Math-Science - application deadline date, summer/fall 2010; summer 2011 award date
  • Veterans Upward Bound - application deadline date, summer/fall 2010; summer 2011 award date
  • Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program - application deadline date, spring 2009; summer 2009 award date
• Notice Soliciting Peer Reviewers (Field Readers) to Review TRIO Grant Applications

Reference Documents

Legislation, Regulations, and Guidance

• Legislation for TRIO Programs [PDF, 33K]
• Legislation Authorizing the SSS Grant Aid [MS Word, 21K]
• Regulations
• OMB Circulars
• Indirect Costs Guidance
• Guidance on the Federal Requirements for Cash Drawdowns: (1) Memo to ED Discretionary Grantees MS Word (86K)

• 2008 Annual Low Income Levels
• Prior-Year Low Income Levels

Statistical Information

• A Profile of the Federal TRIO Programs and Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program: 2008 MS Word (446K) | PDF (267K)
• Total estimated 2009 funding allocation for TRIO Programs (including CCRAA): $880,000,000
• Total 2008 funding allocation for TRIO Programs: $878,850,850; Total number of TRIO projects: 2,853; Total number of TRIO participants: 838,591
• Total 2007 funding allocation for TRIO Programs: $882,898,107; Total number of TRIO projects: 2,886; Total number of TRIO participants: 844,889
• FY 2006 TRIO Funding

National TRIO Program Reports

• Veterans Upward Bound
• Upward Bound Math-Science
• Upward Bound
• Student Support Services
• Talent Search
• Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement
• Educational Opportunity Centers

Program Evaluations

• Upward Bound
• Talent Search

Other Resources

• FSA for Counselors - Web Site for Middle School, High School, and TRIO Counselors
• TRIO ThinkQuest
• Archived TRIO Information

Questions or Comments? OPE_TRIO@ed.gov
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