Federal Grant Award Summary

Growing Outreach Growing Opportunities (G.O.G.O.) received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families under the Transitional Living for Homeless Youth program (CFDA 93.550), effective September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2028. The award funds G.O.G.O.'s Transitional Living Program, which provides safe residential housing, comprehensive supportive services, and life skills training for runaway and homeless youth ages 16–21 in Barstow, California and surrounding areas. Residential stays extend up to 540 days (18 months), with wraparound services designed to promote self-sufficiency and stable, independent living.

The program delivers evidence-based, trauma-informed services targeting four core outcome areas: safe and stable housing, education or employment readiness, permanent connections, and social and emotional well-being. G.O.G.O., a nonprofit, minority-owned, and woman-owned organization based in Barstow, combines this transitional housing intervention with case management, counseling, and educational and employment support to divert at-risk youth from involvement with law enforcement, child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems. This represents G.O.G.O.'s continued federal recognition as a competent provider of runaway and homeless youth services, with prior project grants demonstrating sustained organizational capacity.