Deadline: 30 November 2016
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking applications for its program entitled “Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP)” 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 10 communities, at least 4 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 through this NOFA, supportive policy briefs, consistent cross agency messaging and substantial technical assistance material.
- Evaluate the coordinated community approach. 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, potentially piloting new models of assistance, and determining 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
HUD is making available approximately $33,000,000 through this NOFA for Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program.
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Available to Collaborative Applicants designated by CoCs registered through the FY 2016 CoC Program Registration process. The Collaborative Applicant can apply for any community located within its CoC.
- Project applicants that are designated during the application process by the Collaborative Applicant are eligible to apply for grant funds as well as be subrecipients of grant funds. The Collaborative Applicant may apply for projects under this Demonstration as well. For profit entities are not eligible to apply for grants or to be sub recipients of grant funds.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program.