The Youth Initiative is designed to support direct service programs that promote resilience, stability, and psycho-social health for youth ages 14 to 21 who have experienced trauma because of exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Donor Name: Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Program Priorities
The Foundation gives priority to programs that:
- Actively solicit input from program beneficiaries in ways that guide the design, delivery, and refinement of the program.
- Collaborate with other organizations to enhance the program curriculum, measure outcomes, or share knowledge in ways that advance the impact of trauma treatment.
- Take a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach, treating individuals holistically, and consider existing social and cultural contexts.
- Educate significant adults (e.g., parent, foster parent, teacher, coach) in order to better serve participating youth.
- Serve youth segments that historically have less access to services, including BIPOC youth, youth from rural communities, youth involved with state systems, refugees, LGBTQ youth, and those who have experienced sexual exploitation.
Funding Information
The average grant size for the Initiative is $30,000.
Program Requirements
Foundation will only consider programs that meet the following requirements:
- Serve youth ages 14 to 21 whose ability to flourish has been significantly inhibited by trauma from exposure to ACEs.
- Offer age-appropriate therapeutic interventions, activities or services that promote resilience, stability, and psycho-social health in traumatized youth.
- Use trauma informed practices and policies, and demonstrate a commitment to ongoing trauma training for involved staff.
- Be a new program for the organization, or a new component to an existing program, currently in development or within its first year (from the date of application submission) of implementation.
- Provide services that go beyond crisis intervention and the establishment of initial safety. Short-term shelter-based or crisis-oriented programs will not be funded.
- Include a plan for evaluating program effectiveness, with quantitative and/or qualitative indicators of the program’s impact.
- Enhance the relationship between the youth and at least one significant adult, such as a parent, primary caregiver or other adult with whom the young person has a meaningful and ideally long-term relationship.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations must be classified by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Only programs operating within the United States will be considered. Applications from an organization acting as a fiscal sponsor will be considered when a Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement has been signed by both parties and submitted with the application. Fiscal Sponsor’s must be able to demonstrate substantial and direct fiscal and program oversight. The Foundation does not accept application from fiscal agents.
For more information, visit Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation.
