The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Children, Youth and Families’ (ACYF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) announces the availability of funds under the Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program.
Donor Name: Administration for Children & Families
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $450,000
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
The purpose of the Title V Competitive SRAE program is to fund projects that implement education exclusively on sexual risk avoidance that normalizes the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity and teaches youth participants to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity.
Applicants are expected to submit plans that include interventions and/or strategies that are medically accurate and complete; age-appropriate with regard to the developmental stage of the intended audience; and culturally appropriate, recognizing the experiences of youth from diverse communities, backgrounds, and experiences. Sexual risk avoidance education must ensure that the unambiguous and primary emphasis is a message to youth that normalizes the optimal health behavior of delaying sexual activity until marriage.
The goal of the Title V Competitive SRAE Program is to provide a message to youth that normalizes the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity. The following objectives of the Title V Competitive SRAE Program are to:
- Implement curricula that includes medically accurate information, based on adolescent learning and developmental theories for the age group receiving the education.
- Implement SRAE curricula and strategies that are culturally appropriate, recognizing the experiences of youth from diverse communities, backgrounds, and experiences.
- Teach risk avoidance skills through methods that do not normalize teen sexual activity.
- Target services to youth ages 10 to 19.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $450,000
- Award Floor: $13,501
- 24-month project period with two 12-month budget periods
Eligibility Criteria
This NOFO includes the following entities as eligible applicants:
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) (other than institutions of higher education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education)
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses.
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