Funding-ACF - Street Outreach Program; July 5, 2016

Agency

Administration for Children and Families

Description

The primary purpose of the Street Outreach Program is to provide street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of trafficking in persons. The scope of work is to include outreach, prevention, individualized assessment, service linkages, case planning, and follow-up for youth.

The intent of Family and Youth Services Bureau is to increase young people’s personal safety, social and emotional well-being, self-sufficiency, and to help them build permanent connections with families, communities, schools, and other positive social networks. In addition, the Family and Youth Services Bureau seeks to reduce sexual exploitation and human trafficking incidents among at-risk, runaway, and homeless youth. Therefore, Family and Youth Services Bureau supports projects that:

• Implement outreach intervention strategies to keep youth safe and help them leave the streets;
• Provide approaches to identify and minimize sexual exploitation and human trafficking situations;
• Coordinate and sustain partnerships to expand access to services to respond to the needs of youth homelessness;
• Establish and/or strengthen the integration of comprehensive services that provide protective factors;
• Provide preventive services that enhance protective factors, such as connection to schools, vocational services, friends, and caring adults; and
• Identify and provide services to youth who are victims of any type of sexual victimization and severe forms of human trafficking.

Announcement Number:

HHS-2016-ACF-ACYF-YO-1124

Closing Date:

Jul 05, 2016

Link to Full Announcement

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=283514

Contact Information

Oluwatoyin Akintoye

(202) 205-7745

Oluwatoyin.Akintoye@acf.hhs.gov