The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Children, Youth and Families
(ACYF), Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is accepting applications for the Street Outreach
Program (SOP). The purpose of the SOP is to conduct outreach services designed to build relationships
between grantee staff and runaway, homeless, and street youth with the ultimate goal being to keep youth
safe and help them leave the streets.
Grantees are required to provide services to runaway, homeless, and street youth designed to increase their
safety, well-being, and self-sufficiency, and help them build permanent connections with caring adults. At
a minimum, activities should include:
- Contacting runaway, homeless, or street youth through street-based or site-based outreach and/or a drop-in center
- Engaging street youth through harm-reduction and trauma informed approaches that build trusting
- and meaningful relationships between street outreach staff and youth;
- Providing information on employment, job readiness, and support services at the local, state, and
federal levels; - Responding to the educational needs of youth by informing them of their rights and working with
the appropriate McKinney-Vento liaison to ensure their rights are honored.
Offering education, prevention, and access to intervention services on issues related to domestic
violence, sexual abuse, or exploitation affecting runaway, homeless, and street youth; - Responding to the immediate needs of youth in crisis, including food, clothing, emergency shelter,
survival aid, treatment, counseling and referrals, individual assessments, and follow-up support or
aftercare; and - Helping youth exit the street and achieve safe, stable living arrangement