Program Purpose and Scope

• The grants for serving youth are intended to help youth build relationship skills while supporting positive socioemotional development and promoting successful transitions to young adulthood. Relevant activities include education on relationships, healthy marriage, and parenting (where applicable).
• They also have a continued interest in services for pregnant and/or parenting youth. Your program may serve young fathers or mothers under the parenting element of the marriage and relationships education and skills activity.
• These grants may also support job and career advancement activities, including strategies related to employment, job readiness, employment training, and career pathways appropriate for or program participants targeted to youth. All job and career advancement activities must supplement marriage education and relationship skills activities—they cannot replace them.

Objectives

• This project will help ACF to continuously improve programming and increase positive outcomes for youth, particularly those transitioning to adulthood.
• The objectives of this program include:
  • Youth understand and differentiate healthy from unhealthy relationships.
  • Youth acquire a vision of the kind of relationships they want in the future—including healthy marriages—and take steps to achieve them.
  • Youth gain skills and tools that allow them to have healthier relationships today and in the future.

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 23,100,000
  • Award Ceiling: $1,250,000
  • Award Floor: $400,000

Duration

• The plan to fund a 5-year project period. The project period has 5 one-year budget periods.

Outcomes

• The short-term outcomes that they are targeting include:
  • Developing or improving healthy relationship skills, including skills that support healthy marriages in the future.
  • Developing or improving interpersonal skills with peers and family members.
  • Developing or improving parenting and co-parenting skills.
  • Progressing toward greater economic stability for participants with low incomes, including by attaining professional skills and employment.
  • Progressing toward job and career advancement, financial planning and management, and budgeting skills.
• The long-term participant outcomes that they are targeting include:
  • Improving family functioning.
  • Increasing self-esteem and well-being.
  • Increasing economic stability and mobility.
  • Reducing recidivism (as appropriate).

Eligibility Criteria

• These types of organizations are eligible for an award:
  • State, county, city, and township governments.
  • Special district governments.
  • Independent school districts.
  • Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education.
  • Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) and tribal organizations.
  • Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities.
  • Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
  • Private institutions of higher education.
  • For-profit organizations, including small businesses.
  • Individuals, including sole proprietorships, and foreign entities are not eligible.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.