The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is accepting applications from eligible applicants for the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program to support selected communities in the development and implementation of a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/27/2023
Size of the Grant: $15,000,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
This community planning approach supports the foundations outlined in All In and will guide communities in designing solutions that match the needs in their community, and sharing that experience with and mobilizing communities around the country toward the same end. The population to be served by this demonstration program is youth experiencing homelessness, aged 24 and under, including unaccompanied youth and pregnant or parenting youth who are experiencing homelessness. The demonstration has seven primary objectives:
- Prevent and End Youth Homelessness
- Provide funding, regulatory flexibility, and technical assistance to help communities develop housing and services for youth experiencing homelessness and make youth homelessness rare and, if it occurs, brief and non-recurring.
- Build national momentum
- Motivate state and local homelessness stakeholders and youth services providers, including Runaway and Homeless Youth providers 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;
- Promote equity in the delivery and outcomes of homeless assistance
- Recipients should promote equity throughout the community’s youth homeless response system for youth who are disproportionally more likely to experience homelessness, such as Black, Indigenous, Hispanic (non-white), and LGBTQ+ youth. Awarded communities will promote equity throughout their youth homeless response system and all YHDP projects will measure and demonstrate equitable delivery and outcomes. This includes identifying barriers that led to any disparities in subpopulations being served and taking steps to eliminate these barriers in the community’s youth homeless response system.
- Highlight the importance of youth leadership
- Demonstrate effective models of strong leadership and agency by youth with lived experience in the community. Create replicable best practices of youth leadership for other communities.
- Evaluate the coordinated community approach
- Evaluate coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending youth homelessness, including local and state partnerships across sectors and other coordinated operational planning;
- Expand capacity
- Expand community capacity to serve youth experiencing homelessness (particularly by using a Housing First approach), 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); and
- Establish a framework for Federal program and Technical Assistance (TA) provider 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.
HUD will share demonstration outcomes and make homeless assistance resources publicly available as quickly as possible to accelerate efforts to prevent and end youth homelessness nationally. In addition, HUD, and to the extent possible, its Federal partners, will work to accelerate HUD and the public’s learning related to youth experiencing homelessness and the concepts of:
- Housing First;
- Assessment and prioritization;
- Coordinated entry;
- Risk and protective factors for youth homelessness;
- Diversion from child welfare and systems of justice;
- Success in education and employment;
- Serving survivors of violence, including trafficking;
- Promoting equity and cultural sensitivity;
- Serving LGBTQ+ youth, youth under the age of 18, and pregnant and parenting youth; and
- Improving performance on system performance measures
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $60,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $15,000,000
- Award Floor: $600,000
Project Period
Projects will be for an initial 2-year grant term; however, HUD will allow projects to request a longer initial grant term not to exceed 30 months
Eligible Applicants
- County governments
- State governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
Additional Information
Other Indian Tribes and tribally designated housing entities as defined in Section 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4103)Nonprofits, as demonstrated by criteria at 24 CFR 5.109(l)(1) through 24 CFR 5.109(l)(5).Community Selection application: Available to Collaborative Applicants designated by CoCs registered through the most recent CoC Program Registration process. The Collaborative Applicant can apply for any community located within its CoC’s geographic area. The Collaborative Applicant can also apply for multiple communities located within its CoC’s geographic area; however, HUD will not select more than one community within a CoC’s geographic area.Project application:Project Applicants that are designated during the application process by the Collaborative Applicant or its designee are eligible to apply for grant funds. The Collaborative Applicant may apply for projects under this Demonstration as well. The Collaborative Applicants that are not Unified Funding Agencies (UFAs) may also designate an eligible applicant to be the recipient of the planning grant. UFAs must apply for and be recipient of all grants for their community. For-profit entities are not eligible to apply for grants or to be subrecipients of grant funds.For a dedicated HMIS grant, the project application must either be from the UFA (when there is a UFA for the community) or the HMIS Lead (when there is no UFA for the community) that will be the grant recipient.To be considered for funding, Project Applicants must provide completed information required by HUD, outlined of this NOFOEligible Program Participants. Funds awarded under the YHDP must only be used to serve:a. Youth, as defined in I.A.4, who initially qualify as homeless under paragraph (1) or (2) of the homeless definition in 24 CFR 578.3 or section 103(b) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, or;b. Youth who initially qualify to be served as stated in I.C.5 of Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
