Deadline: 17 April 2018
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking applications for its program entitled “Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program” to learn how communities can successfully approach the goal of preventing and ending youth homelessness by building comprehensive systems of care for young people rather than implementing individual or unconnected projects that serve this population.
The goal of the YHDP is to support up to 11 communities, at least 5 of which will be rural, in the development and implementation of a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness, and sharing that experience with and mobilizing communities around the country toward the same end.
Program Objectives
The demonstration has five primary objectives:
- Build national momentum: Motivate state and local homelessness stakeholders across the country to prevent and end youth homelessness by forming new partnerships, addressing system barriers, conducting needs assessments, testing promising strategies, and evaluating their outcomes;
- Evaluate the coordinated community approach: Evaluate coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending youth homelessness, including local and state partnerships across sectors and other planning operations
- Expand capacity: Demonstration communities will expand their capacity to serve homeless unaccompanied youth, pilot new models of assistance, and determine what array of interventions is necessary to serve the target population in their community
- Evaluate performance measures: Evaluate the use of performance measurement strategies designed to better measure youth outcomes and the connection between youth program outcomes and youth performance measures on overall system performance for the Continuum of Care (CoC);
- Establish a framework for federal program and TA collaboration: Determine the most effective way for federal resources to interact within a state or local system to support a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $43,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $15,000,000
- Award Floor: $1,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- City or township governments
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted electronically via given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit grants.gov.