Deadline: 6 August 2019
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the availability of approximately $85 million in grant funds authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) (Pub. L. 113-128) for YouthBuild.
Under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), DOL will award grants through a competitive process to organizations providing pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to at-risk youth, ages 16 to 24, while performing meaningful work and service to their communities. In addition to construction skills training, YouthBuild applicants may include occupational skills training in other in-demand industries.
The purpose of this program is to fund organizations to provide a pre-apprenticeship program model that encompasses education, occupational skills training, leadership development, and postprogram placement opportunities to at-risk youth. YouthBuild is a community-based alternative education program for youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who are high school dropouts, adjudicated youth, youth aging out of foster care, youth with disabilities, migrant farmworker youth, and other disconnected youth populations.
The YouthBuild program simultaneously addresses multiple core issues important to youth in low-income communities: affordable housing, leadership development, education, and employment opportunities in in-demand industries and apprenticeship pathways. The YouthBuild model balances project-based academic learning and occupational skills training to prepare disadvantaged youth for career placement.
Outcomes
DOL expects YouthBuild grantees awarded under this FOA to track and report on the primary indicators of performance as listed in WIOA Section 116(b)(2)(A)(ii). The YouthBuild program is held to the six WIOA primary indicators of performance for youth. These indicators are:
- Education and Employment Rate – Second Quarter After Exit;
- Education and Employment Rate – Fourth Quarter After Exit;
- Median Earnings – Second Quarter After Exit;
- Credential Attainment;
- Measurable Skill Gains; and
- Effectiveness in Serving Employers.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $85,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,500,000
- Award Floor: $700,000
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants for these grants are private non-profit or public agencies. These organizations include rural, urban, or Native American agencies that have previously served disadvantaged youth in a YouthBuild or other similar program. These agencies or organizations may include, but are not limited to:
- Community and faith-based organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit status;
- An entity carrying out activities under WIOA, such as a local workforce development board or one-stop center partner program;
- Educational institutions, including a local school board, public school district, or community college;
- A community action agency;
- A State or local housing development agency;
- Any Indian and Native American entity eligible for grants under Section 166 of WIOA, including Federally and other than Federally-Recognized Tribes, Native American non-profit organizations, and Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native organizations;
- A community development corporation;
- A State or local youth service conservation corps; and
- Any other public or private non-profit entity that is eligible to provide education or employment training under a Federal program and can meet the required elements of the grant.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=316733