Youth Homeless Demonstration Program

1. NOFO HighlightsHUD will select up to 25 communities to participate in the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) to develop and execute a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.Only CoC Collaborative Applicants may apply for a community under this NOFO [Section III.A]Community selection applications are submitted through grants.gov.Communities represented by the CoC Collaborative Applicant must include a Youth Action Board, the local or state public child welfare agency, and a broad array of other partners [V.A]The rating and ranking criteria included...

(25) OtherIndian Tribes and tribally designated housing entities as defined in Section 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4103)Nonprofits, as demonstrated by criteria at 24 CFR 5.109(l)(1) through 24 CFR 5.109(l)(5).Community Selection application:Available to Collaborative Applicants designated by CoCs registered through the most recent CoC Program Registration process. The Collaborative Applicant can apply for any community located within its CoC’s geographic area. The Collaborative Applicant can also apply for multiple communities located within its CoC’s geographic area; however, HUD will not select more than one community within a CoC's geographic area.Project application:Project Applicants that are designated during the application process by the Collaborative Applicant or its designee are eligible to apply for grant funds. The Collaborative Applicant may apply for projects under this Demonstration as well. The Collaborative Applicants that are not Unified Funding Agencies (UFAs) may also designate an eligible applicant to be the recipient of the planning grant. UFAs must apply for and be recipient of all grants for their community. For-profit entities are not eligible to apply for grants or to be subrecipients of grant funds.For a dedicated HMIS grant, the project application must either be from the UFA (when there is a UFA for the community) or the HMIS Lead (when there is no UFA for the community) that will be the grant recipient.To be considered for funding, Project Applicants must provide completed information required by HUD, outlined in Appendix A of this NOFOEligible Program Participants.Funds awarded under the YHDP must only be used to serve:a. Youth, as defined in I.A.4, who initially qualify as homeless under paragraph (1) or (2) of the homeless definition in 24 CFR 578.3 or section 103(b) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, or;b. Youth who initially qualify to be served as stated in I.C.5 of Appendix A. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.

Nili Soni youthdemo@hud.gov