DC Youth and Young Adult Update 7-11-2025

By NYEC | July 11, 2025

News at NYEC:  

Legislative Branch:  

  • 119th Congressional Committee Updates: 
  • Senate HELP Committee to Hold Hearing on Labor, Health Nominees: On Wednesday, July 16, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing on three Trump administration nominees at the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Click here to watch live. 

Executive Branch:  

  • President Trump Signs Budget Reconciliation Bill Into Law: Congress passed One Big Beautiful Bill on July 3rd and President Trump signed the reconciliation package on July 4th. Medicaid spending will reduce by $930 billion over the next ten years, meaning an additional 11.8 million people will be uninsured. The law imposes new work requirements for Medicaid coverage for adults without dependents and, for the first time, for parents of children over the age of 14. Medicaid spending will reduce by $930 billion over the next ten years, meaning an additional 11.8 million people will be uninsured. The law imposes new work requirements for Medicaid coverage for adults without dependents and, for the first time, for parents of children over the age of 14. A positive side of the bill includes Workforce Pell legislation, which would expand Pell Grant eligibility to learners and workers who want to pursue a short-term job training program. The Workforce Pell portion will go into effect on July 1, 2026. 
  • U.S. Department of Education Ends Public Funding of Postsecondary Education for Undocumented Individuals: The U.S. Department of Education announced it will end public funding of undocumented individuals in career, technical, and adult education programs. In an interpretive rule issued today, the Department rescinded a Dear Colleague letter from the Clinton Administration that enabled undocumented individuals to access federal public benefits through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The interpretive rule also states that postsecondary education programs authorized under the Higher Education Act (HEA), such as Pell Grants and student loans, continue to be inaccessible to undocumented individuals. 
  • US Department of Labor Moves to Prevent Undocumented Individuals From Utilizing Publicly Funded Workforce Programs: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration announced new guidance that undocumented individuals are not allowed access to federal workforce development resources and related grants. Coinciding with similar measures being taken across the federal government, this announcement is the department’s latest effort to carry out President Trump’s executive order 14218, Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders. Under this guidance, all grantees funded through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and related programs must verify valid work authorization before providing participant-level services. The guidance applies to programs including WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker, Youth programs (including statewide employment and training services funded by the Governor reserve), WIOA National Dislocated Worker Grants, Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service, Reentry Employment Opportunities and other programs authorized under Section 169 of WIOA, YouthBuild, the National Farmworker Jobs Program, and the Senior Community Service Employment Program.  
  • Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Announces $5M in WANTO Grants to Expand Apprenticeship Opportunities, Good Paying Jobs for Women: U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced a $5 million funding opportunity for up to 14 grants to attract and retain more American workers in Registered Apprenticeship programs and high-growth industries like manufacturing, construction, and cybersecurity. Administered jointly by the department’s Women’s Bureau and Employment and Training Administration, the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations grant program supports community-based organizations in their efforts to recruit, train, and retain more women in Registered Apprenticeships and high demand occupations. 

Federal Funding Opportunities with upcoming deadlines: 

  • HHS Grant: Basic Center Program: The primary purpose of BCP is to provide temporary, emergency shelter and counseling services to youth less than 18 years of age. We award community-based organizations funding to operate short-term shelters (including group home care and host family homes) and provide counseling services to youth who have run away or are experiencing homelessness or housing instability and who are not already receiving services from the child welfare or juvenile justice systems. Applications are due July 23, 2025. 
  • HHS Grant: FY2025 Transitional Living Program: The Transitional Living Program (TLP) provides street-based outreach, shelter and comprehensive supportive services to youth ages 16 through 21 for up to 18 months or, under extenuating circumstances, 21 months. In addition to shelter, TLPs provide comprehensive services that support participating youth’s transition to self-sufficiency and stable, independent living. Through the combination of shelter and services, TLP youth are expected to show improvements in four core outcome areas: safe and stable housing, education or employment, permanent connections, and social and emotional well-being. Applications are due July 23, 2025.  
  • HHS Grant: Maternity Group Home: The Maternity Group Home (MGH) program provides street-based outreach, safe, stable, and appropriate shelter, and comprehensive services for pregnant and/or parenting youth ages 16 to under 22 and their dependent child(ren) for 18 months and, and up to 21 months under extenuating circumstances. Service providers must accommodate the needs and safety of the dependent children to include facility safety standards for infants and children on the premises. MGH services include, but are not limited to, parenting skills, child development, family budgeting, and health and nutrition education, in addition to the required services provided under the Transitional Living Program to help MGH youth realize improvements in four core outcome areas. The MGH combination of shelter and services is designed to promote long-term, economic independence to ensure the well-being of the youth and their child(ren). Applications are due July 23, 2025. 
  • USDA Grant: Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI): Qualified private, nonprofit and public (including tribal) intermediary organizations proposing to carry out financial and technical assistance programs will be eligible to receive the funding. The RCDI structure requires the intermediary (grantee) to provide a program of financial and technical assistance to recipients to develop their capacity and ability to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development. Applications are due August 7, 2025.  

Previously Shared  

  • ED Grant: OSERS: OSEP: Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities and Demonstration and Training Programs–National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth with Disabilities: The purpose of the Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program is to promote academic achievement and to improve results for children with disabilities by providing TA, supporting model demonstration projects, disseminating useful information, and implementing activities that are supported by scientifically based research. The purpose of the Demonstration and Training program is to provide competitive grants, including cooperative agreements to, or enter into contracts with, eligible entities to expand and improve the provision of vocational rehabilitation (VR) and other services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act), or to further the purposes and policies in sections 2(b) and (c) of the Rehabilitation Act by supporting activities that increase the provision, extent, availability, scope, and quality of rehabilitation services under the Rehabilitation Act, including related research and evaluation activities. Applications are due July 18, 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: 

  • Connecticut: Leaders from the City of Hartford announced today that this summer, over 800 young people in Hartford, part of 1,200 youths throughout the North Central Region, will take an important step toward their future careers thanks to the 2025 Summer Youth Employment and Learning Program (SYELP), an initiative led by Capital Workforce Partners CWP) in collaboration with the State of Connecticut, the City of Hartford, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and a coalition of public and private sector partners. With over $4.4 million in combined investments to the North Central CT Region, $2.9 million will target a Hartford SYELP that provides paid job experiences, career readiness training, and support services to youth ages 14–24 across Hartford and North Central Connecticut. 
  • California: The City of Long Beach Economic Development Department (Department) has been awarded $2.6 million in grant funding from the California Volunteers, Office of the Governor. The funding will be used to expand the City’s nationally recognized youth employment programming and establish new career-building opportunities for local youth with a focus on those who have historically been disconnected from the workforce. 

Resources:  

  • The Federal Funding Streams for Children and Youth Services database helps communities find federal funding available to states, Native nations, territories, counties, cities, towns, school districts, and local nonprofit organizations to support children and youth. This database includes fiscal year obligations from 2019 to 2024 for 304 federally funded programs, administered by 20 different federal agencies, that directly serve children and youth and support healthy whole-child communities, from cradle to care. It also catalogs the purposes and key characteristics of these 304 programs and tracks the flow of that funding to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Explore the database here.  
  • Youth Leaders on Mental Health Webinar: Join GTY and the National Collaborative for Transformative Youth Policy for an important discussion about youth mental health and wellbeing and the role of philanthropy. In this session, young people, practitioners and grantmakers will discuss how current practices and policies impact youth mental health and wellbeing, present a vision for a comprehensive approach to youth mental health, and identify strategies for philanthropy to advance this work. Register for the webinar here. 
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