Unaccompanied Children Lived Experience and Youth Engagement Support
ID: 351756Type: Forecasted
Overview

Buyer

Administration for Children and Families - ORR (HHS-ACF-ORR)

Award Range

$1M - $2M

Eligible Applicants

Others

Funding Category

Income Security and Social Services

Funding Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Opportunity Category

Discretionary

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement

Yes

Original Source

https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/351756
Timeline
  1. 1
    Forecast Posted Apr 19, 2024 12:00 AM
  2. 2
    Forecast Due Jun 20, 2024 12:00 AM
  3. 3
    Posted Jan 9, 2024 12:00 AM
  4. 4
    Due Not available
Description

The Administration for Children and Families - ORR is forecasting a federal grant opportunity titled "Unaccompanied Children Lived Experience and Youth Engagement Support". This grant aims to provide funding to establish, manage, and evaluate a Lived Experience Community Council and Lived Experience Leadership Academy comprised of former unaccompanied children and individuals who sponsored children from ORR care. The grant recipient will recruit, identify, orient, and train lived experience experts that reflect the demographic diversity and varied experiences of former unaccompanied children and sponsors. The grant will support the development of a Community Council implementation plan, Leadership Academy curriculum, web-based application, selection process for eligible candidates, project management, interpretation and translation services, secure technology for virtual meetings, compensation for members, coordination of Washington Weeks, and dissemination of feedback obtained through the lived experience bodies' work. This grant opportunity does not require cost sharing or matching requirements and is open to eligible applicants in the category of Income Security and Social Services. The estimated total program funding is $1,800,000, with an expected number of awards being 1. The application due date is June 20, 2024, and the estimated award date is August 30, 2024. For more information, contact Keith Lussier at keith.lussier@acf.hhs.gov.

Point(s) of Contact
Keith Lussier
(202) 845-5959
keith.lussier@acf.hhs.gov
Files
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