MSG provided expert training, coaching, and TA to 140+ REO program grantees nationwide. Our tailored support helped improve workforce development strategies and strengthened partnerships to boost employment outcomes for justice involved individuals engaging the workforce. We offered personalized one-on-one coaching, interactive webinars, peer learning sessions, and valuable resources to build capacity. Additionally, MSG assisted grantees with timely performance reporting using the Workforce Integrated Performance System (WIPS) and the REO Grants Performance Management System (GPMS).

MSG provides technical assistance to four state agencies as they design and implement cross-system strategies that improve education and career outcomes for youth and young adults with disabilities. The project supports efforts to align K–12, postsecondary, and workforce systems to help students transition successfully into further education, training, or employment. MSG works with grantees to strengthen school and community partnerships, expand access to career pathways, and improve data practices that inform long-term program planning and student support. 

MSG assists with implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act’s (IDEA) national programs. MSG primarily plans and implements the OSEP Annual Meeting with over 1,200 participants. The meeting provides opportunities for in-depth conversations about challenges and solutions in the fields of early intervention and special education.

MSG supports the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Program Logistical and Administrative Support Services funded by the Department of Education, Office of Post Secondary Education (OPE). MSG provides logistical, administrative, and reporting support for recruitment, training, evaluation, and management of peer reviewers.

MSG provides logistical and administrative peer review support for The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE), Higher Education Programs, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Program. Activities include recruitment, training, evaluation, management and payment of peer reviewers; virtual peer reviews; enhancing the current peer review system; designing, reproducing, and distributing of guidance documents; and providing post-review support.

MSG supports the Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) by providing logistical and administrative support for the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence grant competition. MSG handles all peer review activities including developing and distributing review materials, records management, review assignment, data extraction, application management on an ED portable data device, and ensuring all documents are 508 compliant.

MSG serves as the lead communications partner under the U.S. Department of Justice’s $83 million Communications Support Services Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). Through eight active task orders, MSG supports strategic communications, content development, event planning, and public education initiatives across multiple DOJ offices, including the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

MSG supports States, U.S. territories, tribes, and localities in delivering an effective mental health and substance use-related response to disasters through the delivery of disaster behavioral health training and technical assistance, resources, and consultation.

MSG provides training and technical assistance to States and more than 2,000 opioid treatment programs on implementing the 42 CFR Part 8 revisions. This initiative aims to enhance the quality of and access to opioid use disorder treatment.

A multifaceted training and technical assistance project supporting the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) and their 110 Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) and 8 Tribal TANF Child Welfare nationwide grantees that provide structured programming and wraparound services to individuals, couples, and families to support participants in attaining self-sufficiency and improving outcomes for children. Manhattan Strategy Group (MSG) manages communications, project development, virtual and in-person group events, and individualized technical assistance.