Federal Foundation Assistance Monitor

(YOUTH) HHS Provides Funding for Homeless Street Outreach Programs

Agency: Health & Human Services Dept. (HHS) (Admin. for Children & Families, ACF); Program: Street Outreach Program -- Education and Prevention Grants to Reduce Sexual Abuse of Runaway, Homeless and Street Youth (CFDA Number: 93.557) (Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-YO-0042); Eligibility: States, cities, counties, public housing authorities, tribes and nonprofits; Funding: $8.5 million for 85 awards (a 10% match is required); Deadline: July 19.

Summary:  These grants are to support outreach services designed to build relationships between grantee staff and runaway, homeless, and street youth. Applicants must offer programs that assist runaway, homeless, and street youth in making healthy personal choices regarding where they live and how they behave.  Street outreach staff must build relationships with and provide services to these young people in their own environment using an array of communication strategies that encourage trust and willingness to seek shelter and other services.  Street outreach programs must address the immediate needs of street youth (food, clothing, shelter, etc.) through appropriate referrals or direct interventions.  Programs must also focus on improving the behavioral and physical health of street youth, providing them with employment and educational supports, and either reunifying them with family or finding alternative, safe residential placements.  Outreach services also must comprehensively address the individual strengths and needs of youth as well as be gender specific.

To qualify, the programs must deliver street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth.  Operations must include a process for finding street youth and a system for tracking where they congregate, including what times they gather in certain areas, and how many youth are contacted on any given day.

Insider's Tip: Grantees must provide at least 10% of the total approved cost of the project. The non-federal share may be met by cash or in-kind contributions, although applicants are encouraged to meet their match requirements through cash contributions. For example, in order to meet the match requirements, a project requesting $200,000 in ACF (federal) funds must provide a non-federal share of the approved total project cost of at least $22,222, which is 10% percent of total approved project cost.

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