The Homeless Youth Grant is designed to increase the safety of youth ensuring that their basic survival needs are met while also providing safe and stable housing; education and employment services, and the life skills necessary to become self-sufficient.
Donor Name: Illinois Department of Human Services
State: Illinois
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/21/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Homeless Youth program serves those youth who are 14 to 23 years of age who cannot return home and/or lack the housing and skills necessary to live independently. The program strives to meet the immediate safety and survival needs of youth (food, clothing, and shelter) and to provide services that help homeless youth transition to independent living and become self-sufficient.
The services available to youth in these programs include: housing, food, needed goods, and assistance in obtaining and maintaining available support and services in the community, educational services, basic life skills, employment and/or vocational training. The program also ensures necessary service referrals to CCBYS, Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Prenatal and Parenting.
The model include requires all of the following basic program components:
- Outreach/Case Management (OR/CM)
- Outreach programs are designed to identify homeless youth to ensure that their basic safety, survival and immediate needs are being met, and to provide, when possible, case management and other services designed to assist the youth in making healthy lifestyle choices
- Emergency Shelter/Interim Housing (ES/IH)
- Emergency Shelter/Interim Housing programs provide temporary housing and services to homeless youth on a 24-hour basis for up to 120 days. These programs are designed to ensure that basic safety, survival and immediate needs are being met, to reunify the youth with his/her family, when possible or to transition them from homelessness to self-sufficient living
- Transitional Living (TL)
- Transitional Living programs provide housing and services to homeless youth for up to 24 months. Programs are designed to transition youth from homelessness to self-sufficient living; and/or to reunify the youth with his/her family, when possible.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding Amount: $12 million
- Award Range: $100,000 to $800,000.
Grant Period
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants are limited to those public and private nonprofit community-based organizations subject to 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the tax code (26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) or 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(4)). In addition to the above non-profit community-based organizations, eligible applicants are inclusive of units of local government, public schools, districts and Regional Offices of Education
- Applications will only be eligible for consideration that propose programming that includes ALL three required program components (Outreach/Outreach Case Management; Emergency Shelter/Interim Housing; and Transitional Living)
- The applicant must meet the Registration pre-qualification, and any other mandatory Requirements listed in this funding opportunity
- Applicants must provide the following information via the Grantee Portal annually to be registered with the State of Illinois as an awardee:
- Organization name and contact information
- Federal Employee Identification Number (FEIN)
- Unique Identity Number (UEI)
- Organization type.
- Applicants must provide the following information via the Grantee Portal annually to be registered with the State of Illinois as an awardee:
For more information, visit IDHS.
