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Purpose: The Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) aims to support selected communities in developing and implementing a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.

The population to be served by this demonstration program is youth experiencing homelessness, including unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth.

The demonstration has seven primary objectives:
• Build national momentum.
• Promote equity in the delivery and outcomes of homeless assistance.
• Highlight the importance of youth leadership.
• Evaluate the coordinated community approach.
• Expand capacity.
• Evaluate performance measures.
• Establish a framework for the federal program and technical assistance collaboration.

Beginning in 2016, new YHDP communities are selected through a competitive process depending on the annual funding provided by Congress.

A map of currently funded YHDP sites is available at the link titled Map of YHDP-Funded CoC (under YHDP communities) at https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/yhdp/.

Activities to be performed: Eleven types of assistance may be provided through the YHDP:
1. Acquisition of real property (including structures) for use in the provision of housing or supportive services;
2. Rehabilitation of structures to provide housing or supportive services;
3. New construction, including the building of a new structure or building an addition to an existing structure for use as supportive housing;
4. Leasing of a new structure or structures, or portions thereof, to provide housing or supportive services;
5. Rental assistance, which may be short-term, medium-term, or long-term, as well as tenant-based, project-based, or sponsor-based, for transitional or permanent housing;
6. Supportive services to assist program participants obtain and maintain housing;
7. Operating costs of supportive housing;
8. Costs of implementing and operating Homeless Management Information System (HMIS);
9. Program administrative costs;
10. Relocation costs; and
11. Indirect costs in accordance with 2 CFR Part 200, as applicable.

No assistance provided under this program (or any state or local government funds used to supplement this assistance) may be used to replace state or local funds previously used, or designated for use, to assist homeless persons or persons at-risk of homelessness.

Expected outcomes: As a result of developing and implementing a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness, there will be:
• Significant decrease in the number of youth experiencing homelessness.
• Increased income, education, health, and social/emotional well-being of participants.
• Community-level understanding of the number and needs of youth at-risk of and experiencing homelessness.
• New or improved partnerships between youth-serving organizations in the community.

Intended beneficiaries: Homeless unaccompanied youth (age 24 and younger) and homeless youth (age 24 and younger) with children.

Subrecipient activities: The subrecipient activities are unknown at the time of award.

Idaho Housing And Finance Association

GOAL 1: PREVENT AND END YOUTH HOMELESSNESS. PROVIDE FUNDING, REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY, AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO HELP COMMUNITIES DEVELOP HOUSING AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND MAKE YOUTH HOMELESSNESS RARE AND, IF IT OCCURS, BRIEF AND NON-RECURRING. GOAL 2: ESTABLISH A FRAMEWORK FOR FEDERAL PROGRAM AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (TA) PROVIDER COLLABORATION. DETERMINE THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY FOR FEDERAL RESOURCES TO INTERACT WITHIN A STATE OR LOCAL SYSTEM TO SUPPORT A COORDINATED COMMUNITY APPROACH TO PREVENTING AND ENDING YOUTH HOMELESSNESS. GOAL 3: EVALUATE PERFORMANCE MEASURES. EVALUATE THE USE OF PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT STRATEGIES DESIGNED TO BETTER MEASURE YOUTH OUTCOMES AND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN YOUTH PROGRAM OUTCOMES AND YOUTH PERFORMANCE MEASURES ON OVERALL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE FOR THE CONTINUUM OF CARE (COC). GOAL 4: EXPAND CAPACITY. EXPAND COMMUNITY CAPACITY TO SERVE YOUTH EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS (PARTICULARLY BY USING A HOUSING FIRST APPROACH), PILOT NEW MODELS OF ASSISTANCE, AND DETERMINE WHAT ARRAY OF INTERVENTIONS IS NECESSARY TO SERVE THE TARGET POPULATION IN THEIR COMMUNITY. GOAL 5: EVALUATE THE COORDINATED COMMUNITY APPROACH. EVALUATE COORDINATED COMMUNITY APPROACHES TO PREVENTING AND ENDING YOUTH HOMELESSNESS, INCLUDING LOCAL AND STATE PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS SECTORS AND OTHER COORDINATED OPERATIONAL PLANNING. GOAL 6: HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUTH LEADERSHIP: DEMONSTRATE EFFECTIVE MODELS OF STRONG LEADERSHIP AND AGENCY BY YOUTH WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE IN THE COMMUNITY. CREATE REPLICABLE BEST PRACTICES OF YOUTH LEADERSHIP FOR OTHER COMMUNITIES. GOAL 7: PROMOTE EQUITY IN THE DELIVERY AND OUTCOMES OF HOMELESS ASSISTANCE. RECIPIENTS SHOULD PROMOTE EQUITY THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY'S YOUTH HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR YOUTH WHO ARE DISPROPORTIONALLY MORE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE HOMELESSNESS, SUCH AS BLACK, INDIGENOUS, HISPANIC (NON-WHITE), AND LGBTQ+ YOUTH. AWARDED COMMUNITIES WILL PROMOTE EQUITY THROUGHOUT THEIR YOUTH HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM AND ALL YHDP PROJECTS WILL MEASURE AND DEMONSTRATE EQUITABLE DELIVERY AND OUTCOMES. THIS INCLUDES IDENTIFYING BARRIERS THAT LED TO ANY DISPARITIES IN SUBPOPULATIONS BEING SERVED AND TAKING STEPS TO ELIMINATE THESE BARRIERS IN THE COMMUNITY'S YOUTH HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM. GOAL 8: BUILD NATIONAL MOMENTUM. MOTIVATE STATE AND LOCAL HOMELESSNESS STAKEHOLDERS AND YOUTH SERVICES PROVIDERS, INCLUDING RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH PROVIDERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO PREVENT AND END YOUTH HOMELESSNESS BY FORMING NEW PARTNERSHIPS, ADDRESSING SYSTEM BARRIERS, CONDUCTING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS, TESTING PROMISING STRATEGIES, AND EVALUATING THEIR OUTCOMES.

14.276 - Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program

Region X [HUD - CPD - FO]

Community Planning and Development (CPD) [HUD]

Boise, Idaho 83702-7675 United States

Single Zip Code

Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (FR-6800-N-35)