DC Youth and Young Adult Update `10-3-2025

News at NYEC: 

• Registration Closes Oct. 20th for NYEC’s Annual Youth Days Event in Washington, D.C., from November 5-7, 2025! NYEC is inviting practitioners, community and organization leaders, and young people to join us to bring a voice for opportunity youth to Congress. Whether you are new to policy and advocacy or a skilled advocate, we will provide the tools and training so you can join us in calling for increased investments and new policies that will benefit young people across the nation. We hope to see you there!  

Legislative Branch:  

• Federal Government Enters Shutdown: As of October 1st, the US federal government entered a shutdown after Congress failed to pass appropriation or continuing resolution funding to fund discretionary operations. During the shutdown, non-essential government activities are suspended, while essential programs generally continue. While we do not expect disruptions to formula funding streams, such as WIOA Youth, there may be disruptions for competitive grant programs, depending on how long the shutdown lasts. NYEC members may also experience delayed communication and correspondence from federal grant officials and federal agencies. The last prior federal shutdown lasted for 35 days, from December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019 — the longest closure in U.S. history. 

• Senate HELP Committee Announces Hearing on AI’s Impact on American Families & Workers: On Thursday, October 9 at 10:00 AM ET/9:00 AM CT, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing on the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on American families and the workforce, titled “AI’s Potential to Support Patients, Workers, Children, and Families.” The hearing can be watched here.  

• Senate HELP Committee to Consider President Trump’s Labor Nominees: The Senate HELP Committee will vote on Trump administration nominees at the National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor on Thursday, October 9. The full list of nominees can be found here.  

Executive Branch: 

No new Executive Branch updates. 

Federal Funding Opportunities with upcoming deadlines: 

No new federal funding opportunities.  

Previously Shared: 

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Multistate Mentoring Programs: This funding opportunity will support mentoring organizations to enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth who are at risk or high risk for delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. Applications are due October 21, 2025.  

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence: This funding opportunity seeks to develop support services for children exposed to violence in their homes, schools, and communities; and to develop, enhance, and implement violent crime reduction strategies. Applications are due October 21, 2025.  

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Mentoring for Youth Affected by Opioid and Other Substance Use: This funding will enhance and expand mentoring services for children and youth affected by opioids and other substance use, as well as their families. Applications are due October 23, 2025.  

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Enhancing Juvenile Indigent Defense: This funding opportunity seeks to support local implementation of juvenile indigent defense practices and services that strengthen and improve the representation of youth involved in the juvenile justice system. Applications are due October 23, 2025.  

• DOJ Grant: BJA FY25 Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program: This funding supports programs designed to prevent and reduce school violence by implementing training, developing school threat assessment teams and/or intervention teams to identify violence risks, introducing technologies like anonymous reporting tools, or applying other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence. Applications are due October 27, 2025. 

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 National Mentoring Programs: This funding supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth that are at risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement. Applications are due October 27, 2025. 

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Community and Schools Youth Drug Prevention Program: This funding supports the delivery of substance use prevention programs for youth in schools and extracurricular settings in coordination with local law enforcement and community coalitions. Applications are due October 27, 2025.  

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Emergency Planning for Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities: This funding will support the development, implementation and improvement of emergency planning activities for state, Tribal, county, and local juvenile justice residential facilities. Applications are due October 27, 2025. 

• DOJ Grant: BJA FY25 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative: This funding opportunity supports law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime and improve police-community relations through a range of cross-sector enforcement, prevention, and intervention strategies that leverage active collaboration with communities through sustained partnerships and engagement. Applications are due October 27, 2025.  

• DOJ Grant: OJJDP FY25 Reducing Recidivism for Female Juvenile Delinquents: This funding will support the development, enhancement, or expansion of intervention programs for female juvenile delinquents. Applications are due October 27, 2025. 

• HHS Grant: Grants to Support New Investigators in Conducting Research Related to Preventing Interpersonal Violence Impacting Children and Youth: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) helps researchers develop skills in violence prevention research. Applications are due December 1, 2025. 

• HHS Grant: National Center on Head Start Early Learning, Health and Family Engagement: The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start announces the availability of approximately $15,000,000 to be competitively awarded for the purpose of operating the Head Start National Center on Early Learning, Health, and Family Engagement. This NC will provide training and technical assistance that reflects current evidence, is research-informed, and promotes best practices. Applications are due December 15, 2025. 

From the States: 

• Tennessee: Tennessee will require SNAP recipients to provide updated work requirement documentation by October 31st. The state will also have to pick up 75% of the administrative costs of the food assistance program. 

• Oregon: Youth Villages, a children’s mental and behavioral health nonprofit, raised more than $225,000 to provide funding for community-based programs aimed to help former foster youth build healthy relationships, housing, education, and employment. 

Resources: 

• Indianapolis Area Youth Summer Program Grants: The Indianapolis Foundation put out a grant to support high-quality summer programs for Indianapolis/Marion County youth. Funds can be used to cover costs such as staffing, programming materials, scholarships to lower registration costs, and more. 

• Three Things to Minimize Barriers to Workforce Success: The National League of Cities in preparation for their Southern Cities Economic Initiative (SCEI) has produced guidelines on the top three things organizations can do to minimize barriers to workforce success.