The Administration for Children and Families is accepting applications for its Unaccompanied Children Lived Experience and Youth Engagement Program.
Donor Name: Administration for Children and Families
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/20/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Goals
The LEYEP’s goal are twofold:
- to improve through research and reporting public programs that serve unaccompanied children, thereby helping better protect them from traffickers and other persons seeking to victimize or otherwise engage such children in criminal, harmful, or exploitative activity, and
- to provide unaccompanied children with ongoing assistance through a trauma-informed, life skills curriculum.
Objectives
The LEYEP’s objectives are to establish, develop, and maintain a Lived Experience Council that will:
- Collect feedback from former unaccompanied children and reunified families about their firsthand experience while in ORR care, post-release outcomes, and integrating to the United States.
- Contribute to research and reporting, in consultation with individuals with lived experience, on how to keep unaccompanied children protected from traffickers and other persons seeking to victimize or otherwise engage such children in criminal, harmful, or exploitative activity.
- Provide educational or professional development opportunities for program participants by partnering with ORR, its residential and PRS recipient networks, state/local government agencies, school districts, health care providers, and social services providers on the provision of training, technical assistance, and other special projects.
- Run a subgroup of the Lived Experience Council, called the Youth Leadership Academy (“Leadership Academy”), whose membership will be limited to unaccompanied children and/or former unaccompanied children, ages 14-21. The Leadership Academy will develop leadership and life skills through a trauma-informed curriculum. Youth will receive additional training and skills development on advocacy, research, and writing, in order to best contribute to the work of the Lived Experience Council. Upon graduation from the Leadership Academy, youth may continue to participate in the full Lived Experience Council.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $1,800,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,800,000
- Award Floor: $1,000,000
Project Period
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity.
- Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity. 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
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