Brooklyn avenues transitional living program - the transitional living program (TLP) (CX) provides safe, stable, and appropriate shelter for runaway and homeless youth ages 16 to under 22 for up to 18…

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Avenues For Youth $569,460 on September 30, 2025, under the Transitional Living for Homeless Youth program (CFDA 93.550) to operate the Brooklyn Avenues Transitional Living Program.

The program provides safe, stable shelter to runaway and homeless youth ages 16 to under 22 for up to 18 months, extendable to 21 months under extenuating circumstances. Comprehensive services include basic life skills training, educational and job attainment opportunities, and counseling to support youth transition to self-sufficiency and stable independent living.

Avenues For Youth, a Minnesota-based tax-exempt nonprofit, operates this program in Minnesota with a period of performance through September 29, 2028. The organization also operates a companion Transitional Living Program in Minneapolis under separate ACYF funding and delivers homeless youth housing and supportive services through HUD's Continuum of Care program in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area.

Brooklyn avenues transitional living program - the transitional living program (TLP) (CX) provides safe, stable, and appropriate shelter for runaway and homeless youth ages 16 to under 22 for up to 18 months and, under extenuating circumstances, can be extended to 21 months. Tlps provide comprehensive services (e.g., basic life skills, educational and job attainment opportunities, counseling) that supports the transition of homeless youth to self-sufficiency and stable, independent living.