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FYSB is recruiting qualified candidates to read, score, and evaluate grant applications in response to FYSB's anticipated FY2020 Funding Opportunity Announcements. 

This brief was developed as part of a portfolio of youth-focused projects on sexual risk avoidance and cessation sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The brief presents two initial, complementary conceptual models—one for sexual risk avoidance and a second for sexual risk cessation—that aim to guide efforts to prevent youth risk behaviors and promote optimal health. The models identify a range of factors that research shows may influence youth decision making, sexual behavior, and related outcomes. These influencing factors occur at the environmental, interpersonal, or individual level, and many can be modified through intervention. To this end, the models may be used to guide and support efforts to develop and refine programs, tailor educational messages to youth, and empower parents and other adults to help youth avoid or cease sexual and non-sexual risk behaviors. In particular, the sexual risk cessation conceptual model is supporting the development of a sexual risk cessation program model and related supplemental curriculum module, intended to help sexually-experienced youth avoid sexual activity in the future.

Between February and May 2019, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) held 10 regional listening sessions with more than 600 stakeholders on issues related to youth and family homelessness. This executive summary is based on feedback from the regional listening sessions using participants' comments/notes, forum transcripts, and audio recordings. Organized by the ACF Office of Regional Operations and the Family and Youth Services Bureau, the listening sessions allowed ACF leaders to learn about trends, barriers, and local innovative responses from a diverse group of stakeholders including parents with lived experience, grantee and non-grantee service providers, educators, faith-based and community providers, and state and local government leaders. The sessions were an opportunity to share information about ACF's resources with attendees and to ask attendees for ways that ACF programs might be improved to better serve families and youth who are experiencing homelessness.  

In observance of Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM) — observed each February — national training and technical assistance providers funded through ACF's Family and Youth Services Bureau, Family Violence Prevention and Services Program are hosting a number of public awareness and social media campaigns. 

Beginning in FY2015, all Runaway and Homeless Youth Program grantees were required to begin using HMIS, operated by their local U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded Continuum of Care, or CoC, for all data reporting to the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB). FYSB refers to the expanded system as RHY-HMIS. These frequently asked questions should aid in that reporting.

FYSB's Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program awarded Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program (General Departmental-Funded) grants for FY2019. The purpose of the SRAE Program is to fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teaches participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity.

The FYSB Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (APP) Program announced the recipients of Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant funding for FY2019. Title V Competitive SRAE funding supports projects that provide educational services for youth that normalizes the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity.

FYSB's Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) program awarded Maternity Group Homes for Pregnant and Parenting Youth (MGH) grants for FY2019. The MGH program supports homeless pregnant and/or parenting young people, as well as their dependent children. Youth must be between the ages of 16 and 22 to enter the program.

The Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) Program announced the recipients of Street Outreach Program (SOP) grant funding for FY2019. SOP funding supports programs that work with runaway and homeless youth to help them find housing and services that aim to prevent exploitation and abuse of street youth.

FYSB's Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) program awarded Transitional Living Program (TLP) grants for FY2019. TLP funding supports long-term residential services to older homeless youth, ages 16 to 22.