In addition to Title I and IDEA funding, there are several other federal programs which can be sources of funding for Ripple Effects, Title II D EETT (Technology), Title IV (Safety, health, community), Title V (Counseling), Title VII B (Homeless), Title IX (Gender equity), OJJDP (Delinquency prevention).  

Title II

Title II D EETT funds provide technology to help boost student achievement, by establishing research-based instructional methods, to help students become technology literate by end of 8th grade and providing professional development (up to  25%) in how to use technology effectively to improve teaching and learning. Ripple Effects meets  these standards.

• Because it is a fully -contained, hyperlinked structure with more than 100,000 multi-media elements and billions of possible combinations for accessing that information, it provides training in skills for using the web for research, while limiting what students will find to science-based information and skill training that has been vetted by an interdisciplinary panel of experts.
• Familiar social content makes an ideal bridge to technology for students (often girls) who are intimidated by complicated software programs
• It's fail proof design overcomes fears about doing the "wrong" thing

Title IV

Title IV, includes funding for Safe and Drug Free Schools, Safe Schools Healthy Students funding, and 21^st Century Community Learning Centers.

Ripple Effects software is currently being used in all of these programs in sites across the country. Title IV is a primary source of “prevention” funding.  Prevention science is one of the four major theory bases that underpin the Ripple Effects program.

Targeted, group level programs (secondary intervention) include comprehensive evidence-based information and training related to tobacco, drugs, alcohol, bullying and violence prevention, as well as child abuse and neglect, and pregnancy, HIV and relationship violence. Universal promotion (primary prevention) programs include sequenced lessons for character education, social-emotional learning, and positive youth development.

Title V

Title V School counseling grants can be used to expand the capacity of counselors through the use of student problem solving software, and can include live or software-based training for them to use it.  With a recommended case load of 250 students per counselor, and many counselors bearing an even larger load, school counselors use Ripple Effects extensively to triage services and expand their capacity to provide individualized guidance, support and training to diverse students with diverse needs.  They frequently report that it is a bridge to students who have been reluctant to talk about what is hampering their school success. Ripple Effects software:

• Provides counselors access to accurate science-based information and evidence-based practices for 550 topics
• Bridges communication with troubled students who have been reluctant to talk
• Uses an expert system to match the most relevant set of evidence-based practices to each student, based on students’ self-identified need
• Protects student confidentiality
• Provides a method of triage, whereby counselors can focus more energy on students with the most serious needs. 

Title VII

Title VII B McKinney-Vento funds are to provide educational services to homeless children and youth: give these students greater access to technology; provide content that these students can access through public libraries or community resources. By making Ripple Effects fully self-contained program available on a portable flash drive, homeless and foster youth can carry personal support in their pocket and access its huge library of content, wherever they can use a computer. Tutorials on homeless and foster care, and attendant issues are included in the teen program.  Professional Development software includes training on how to be sensitive to and meet the needs of students in economic crisis.
 
Title IX

Title IX funds are to promote gender equity on all aspects of education. Ripple Effects software:

• Provides information in gender related topics for both boys and girls, from anorexia to steroid use, from PMS to rape
• Includes assessment tools and skill training for dealing with gender related issues
• Provides training in social change strategies to address social justice issues 

OJJDP

Office of Juvenile Justice, Delinquency Prevention Funds are designed to reduce involvement in delinquent behavior.  Ripple Effects software fulfills this purpose. The program:

• Is based on multi-disciplinary research  that clearly shows a correlation between Ripple Effects Seven Key Skills and the risk of being a victim or a victimizer
• Provides indicated personalized interventions for predelinquent behavior, that is currently used with thousands of students in disciplinary settings, including ISS
• Provides tutorials that specifically address the most common, misdemeanor level, juvenile offenses
• Includes a built-in progress tracking system to meet reporting requirements.