Deadline: 21-Jun-21
The Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families’ Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) has announce the availability of funds under the Street Outreach Program.
Goal
- Provide street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who are 21 years of age and younger and who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of trafficking; and to build relationships between street outreach workers and runaway, homeless, and street youth to move youth into stable housing and prepare them for independence.
Vision
- Prevent the sexual abuse, human trafficking, or exploitation of young people living on the streets or in unstable housing.
Components
Consistent with the statutory mandates set forth in the RHY Act, as well as the regulatory requirements set forth in the RHY Rule, SOP projects shall include the following components:
- Conduct Street Outreach and Provide Access to Shelter
- SOP projects must conduct outreach and engage with runaway, homeless, and street youth/young adults to keep them safe and help them leave the streets.
- Drop-In Center (optional service): SOP projects may utilize this service; however, dropin centers supported through RHY funds must be accessible to youth and provide services such as showers, hot meals, laundry, e-mail, phone, and case management.
- SOP projects provide runaway, homeless, and street youth/young adults access to an emergency shelter or safe and stable housing on a 24-hours-a-day basis. When referring youth to a shelter, the shelter must have a vacancy for the youth and meet the state requirements for licensing; it must be supervised and age-appropriate, with an atmosphere that youth will trust.
- SOP projects provide transportation to shelters, as needed. For shelter provided through referrals, shelter organizations must guarantee that street outreach staff can enter the shelter 24 hours a day to access clients in residence. Safe housing for youth victims of trafficking must be carefully considered when identifying emergency shelters.
- Comprehensive Youth-Centered Service Model
- Social and Emotional Well-being and Strength-based Approach
- Outreach plan
- Gateway services
- Assessment
- Harm reduction
- Service coordination plan
- Crisis stabilization
- Case Management
- Coordination with RHY national communication system
- Follow-up
- Street-Based Services to RHY Victims of Trafficking
- SOP projects identify and provide street-based services to runaway and homeless youth who are victims of trafficking.
- SOP projects enhance their human trafficking prevention and intervention strategies to minimize human trafficking incidents among street youth.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $5,177,322
- Award Ceiling: $150,000 Per Budget Period
- Award Floor: $90,000 Per Budget Period
- Average Projected Award Amount: $100,000 Per Budget Period
- Anticipated Project Start Date: 09/30/2021
- Expected Number of Awards: 34
- Length of Project Period: 36-month project period with three 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
- Public (state and local) and private non-profit entities (including faith-based and community organizations) and coordinated networks of such entities, are eligible to apply for a RHY Program grant unless they are part of the juvenile justice system.
- For-profit organizations are not eligible. Private institutions of higher education must be non-profit entities.
- In selecting applications to receive grants under the SOP, priority will be given to public and non-profit private agencies that have experience in providing services to runaway, homeless, and street youth.
- Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, subject to the protections and requirements of this part and 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., the Department will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of the organization’s religious character, affiliation, or exercise.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=328897