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This National Runaway Safeline report compares contacts made in January 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Calendar of Events for 2015 Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) provides the primary federal funding stream dedicated to providing immediate shelter and supportive services for victims of family violence, domestic violence or dating violence and their dependents.

The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) provides the primary federal funding stream dedicated to the support of emergency shelter and supportive services for victims of domestic violence and their dependents. 

The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to provide guidance on services for youth under age 18 who run away from foster care and come in contact with runaway and homeless youth programs.

This summary provides a portrait of the young people, aged 14—21, experiencing homelessness in areas served by the SOP grantees. 

Getting Taken Care Of: Connecting Youth to Clinical Services

Webinar, 12 September 2014
October 21, 2014

To assist programs trying to help young people access clinical services, the Family and Youth Services Bureau offered this webinar to Adolescent Pregnancy Preventions Grantees on September 12, 2014. 

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a time to honor victims and raise awareness about the devastating impact of domestic violence. 

These grants support abstinence education programming, an intervention in a continuum of services that seeks to prevent teen pregnancy. The purpose of the Competitive Abstinence Education (CAE) Grant Program is to provide funding to address the rates of teen pregnancy among adolescent youth who are at greatest risk of STDs/STIs and most likely to bear children out of wedlock. Programs focus on the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by delaying initiation of sexual activity and engaging in healthy relationships.

These demonstration projects will build and sustain coordinated services in partnership with allied professionals in community-based organizations such as runaway and homeless youth, domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking victim services programs.