DC Youth and Young Adult Update 01-24-2025

 

 

News at NYEC:

• Join the National Youth Employment Coalition’s 2025 Annual Forum- Empowering Youth, Transforming Communities, in Minneapolis, MN, from May 12-14, 2025! This event will gather practitioners, youth advocates, and community leaders to explore key topics like youth leadership, holistic supports, living wage employment, and policy & advocacy.  

• Fill out a 6-month Federal Advocacy Calendar! Interested in being more engaged in federal advocacy? The hyperlinked title will direct you to a JotForm that lists concrete steps that you can take in the first 6 months of the year to build a relationship with your Members of Congress! NYEC will make it easy to complete each goal of every month by sharing support, reminders, and more! 

Legislative Branch:

• 119th Congressional Committee Updates:

• House Appropriations Committee: Chairman Cole held an organizational meeting of the Appropriations Committee, they adopted rules and subcommittee jurisdictions.

• House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: Chairman Graves announced updated subcommittee rosters after restructuring former appointments.

• The Senate HELP Committee will hold a hearing on January 30th on the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

• Nomination Hearing – Director of the Office of Management and Budget: The Senate Budget Committee heard the nomination of the Honorable Russell T. Vought, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

• Nomination Hearing – U.S. Secretary of Transportation: The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted to advance President Trump’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Transportation, the Honorable Sean Duffy, to the full Senate with unanimous support from committee members.

• Nomination Hearing – U.S. Secretary of Commerce: The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will convene a nomination hearing for Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Secretary of Commerce on January 29th.

• Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) Introduces a Bill to Amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA): Senator Rosen introduced a bill to amend WIOA to expand the capacity of junior or community colleges and area career and technical education schools to conduct training services, education, and outreach activities for careers in the residential construction industry. The bill text has not yet been released.

• Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL) Reintroduced ‘The Jobs Now Act’: Amending WIOA, this legislation is focused on assisting Americans who are having difficulty finding employment by providing two-year grants to cities, counties, and qualified nonprofits for training, hiring, and retaining individuals in public service jobs. It proposes to distribute funds via a competitive grant process, focusing on communities experiencing significant poverty, unemployment, and home foreclosures.

• Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) Introduces S.235: Senator Heinrich introduced S.235, a bill to direct the Secretary of Labor to enter into contracts with industry intermediaries for purposes of promoting the development of and access to apprenticeships and related pre-apprenticeships for secondary school students. The bill text has not yet been released.

Executive Branch:

• U.S. Department of Education Announces Incoming Trump-Vance Senior Appointees: The U.S. Department of Education announced a team of senior-level political appointees who will support the implementation of President Trump’s vision.

• Biden-Harris Administration Awards nearly $3.6 Billion in Homelessness Assistance Funding to Communities Nationwide: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced nearly $3.6 billion in Continuum of Care (CoC) program awards for nearly 7,000 projects that provide housing assistance and supportive services to people experiencing homelessness, as well as costs related to planning and data collection.

• President Trump Revokes Executive Actions Related to DEI: President Trump issued a series of actions targeting DEI programs including ordering all executive departments and agencies to terminate all DEI-related preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements.

Federal Funding Opportunities with upcoming deadlines:

• USDA Grant: Youth Farm Safety Education and Certification: Youth Farm Safety Education and Certification (YFSEC) Program for Fiscal Year 2025 supports national efforts to deliver timely, pertinent, and appropriate farm safety education to youth seeking employment or already employed in agricultural production. Applications are due March 20, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program: This grant funds transitional housing and support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance as a result of a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Applications are due March 18, 2025.

• ED Grant: Indian Education Discretionary Grants Program: Demonstration Grants for Indian Children and Youth Program: The purpose of the program is to provide financial assistance to community-driven projects that develop and share innovative services and programs designed to improve the educational opportunities and achievement of Indian students by addressing community-level challenges. Applications are due April 28, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence: This funding opportunity seeks to provide funding to communities to develop coordinated and comprehensive community-based approaches to help children and their families who are exposed to violence (CEV) build resilience, restore their safety, heal their social and emotional wounds, and prevent future violence and delinquency. Applications are due March 10, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Regional Children’s Advocacy Centers Program: This program furthers DOJ’s mission by supporting and strengthening four regional children’s advocacy centers (CACs) that will deliver coordinated training and technical assistance within and across the regions to CACs, members of multidisciplinary teams, programs, and organizations to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect and the provision of children’s advocacy center services to child victims and their families. Applications are due March 12, 2025.

Previously Shared

• DOL Grant: State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula, Round 3 (SAEF3): This Funding Opportunity Announcement solicits applications for the third round of the State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula (SAEF3) grant program. Applications are due March 18, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: BJA FY25 National Initiatives: Justice and Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Program: This funding opportunity seeks to fund training and technical assistance (TTA) programs for three national initiatives supporting justice and mental health programs. Delivered TTA will be site-based, program-specific TTA and broader TTA for the field. Applications are due March 27, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative: The primary purpose of the OVW TA Initiative is to provide direct training and technical assistance (TTA) to current and potential OVW recipients and subrecipients to enhance their efforts to successfully implement projects supported by OVW grant funds. Applications are due March 18, 2025.

• HHS Grant: Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act) Grant Program: The purpose of this program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth and young adults ages 12 to 20 in communities throughout the United States. Applications are due March 17, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: BJA FY25 STOP School Violence Program: This funding opportunity aims to support school safety by implementing solutions to enhance school climate, establish school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and apply other evidence-based strategies to prevent violence. Applications are due March 27, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: BJA FY25 Second Chance Act Community-based Reentry Program: This funding opportunity seeks to support organizations and tribal governments providing comprehensive reentry services to individuals who have been incarcerated. Applications are due April 3, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 National Mentoring Programs: This funding opportunity seeks to enhance and expand mentoring services for youth who are at risk or high risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. Applications due March 5, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: BJA FY25 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based: With this funding opportunity, OJP seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime through comprehensive, evidence-informed violence intervention programs focused on those at highest risk. Applications due April 8, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Juvenile Justice System Reform and Reinvestment Initiative: This funding opportunity seeks to support states’ implementation of innovative and/or research-based, data-informed policies to improve juvenile justice system outcomes and sustainable strategies for reinvesting resulting costs saved or averted into effective juvenile justice prevention and intervention programs. Applications due March 3, 2025.

• HHS Grant: Statewide Family Network: The purpose of this program is to provide resources to enhance the capacity of statewide mental health family-controlled organizations to support, train, and mentor family members/primary caregivers who are raising children, youth, and young adults with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and/or co-occurring disorders (COD). Applications due March 17, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 National Mentoring Resource Center: This funding opportunity seeks to build on OJJDP’s history and leadership in mentoring by providing the mentoring field and practitioners with comprehensive resources and training materials on the OJJDP National Mentoring Resource Center website. Applications due March 3, 2025.

• USDA Grant: Community Connect Grant Program: The Community Connect Grant Program provides financial assistance to eligible applicants that will provide service at or above the Broadband Grant Speed (100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up) to all premises in rural, economically-challenged communities where broadband service (10 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up) does not exist. Applications due April 21, 2025.

• HUD Grant: Youth Homeless Demonstration Program for Fiscal Year 2024: HUD will select between 12 and 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. Applications due April 17, 2025. 

• DOJ Grant: BJA FY25 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program: This funding opportunity seeks to fund programs that support collaborations to improve public safety responses and outcomes for people with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs). The goal is to improve safety and well-being for adults with MHDs (including people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)) or MHSUDs who come into contact with the criminal justice system. Applications are due April 3, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: NIJ FY25 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research and Evaluation: This funding opportunity seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects that advance understanding of OJP Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiatives (CVIPI). Applications due March 27, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Grants to Indian Tribal Governments Program: The Grants to Indian Tribal Governments Program, referred to as the Tribal Governments Program, assists Tribal governments (or their authorized designees) to respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking in Tribal communities. Applications are due April 8, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship: This funding opportunity seeks to support doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States. Applications are due April 15, 2025.

• FY25 U.S. Department of Justice Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation: This Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) funding opportunity seeks to provide funding to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. CTAS provides federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety. Applications are due March 18, 2025.

• DOJ Grant: Building a Community of Practice for Women in Strategic Trade: This grant exists to create a professional network and community of practice to advance women working in strategic trade through sustained mentorship. Experienced international strategic trade experts and practitioners will guide early- or mid-career women in the strategic trade field through a sustained six-month mentorship. Applications are due March 25, 2025.