FR-6900-N-35_NOFO.pdf

FON

FR-6900-N-35

Applications Due 04/17/2025

Organization Name Title

Youth Homeless Demonstration Program for Fiscal Year 2024

Table of Contents

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

I. BASIC INFORMATION

A. Summary

B. Agency Contact(s)

II. ELIGIBILITY

A. Eligible Applicants

B. Cost Sharing or Matching

III. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

A. Purpose

B. Goals and Objectives

C. Authority

D. Unallowable Costs

E. Indirect Costs

F. Program History

G. Other Information

IV. APPLICATION CONTENTS AND FORMAT

A. Standard Forms, Assurances, and Certifications

B. Budget

C. Narratives and Other Attachments

D. Other Application Content

V. APPLICATION REVIEW INFORMATION

A. Threshold Review

B. Merit Review

C. Risk Review

D. Selection Process

E. Award Notices

VI. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND DEADLINES

A. Deadlines

B. Submission Methods

C. Other Submissions

D. False Statements

VII. POST-AWARD REQUIREMENTS AND ADMINISTRATION

A. Administrative, National and Departmental Policy Requirements, and General Terms and Conditions

B. Environmental Requirements

C. Remedies for Noncompliance

D. Reporting

VIII. CONTACT AND SUPPORT

A. Agency Contact

B. Grants.gov

C. SAM.gov

D. Debriefing

E. Applicant Experience Survey

F. Other Online Resources

APPENDIX

Appendix I. HUD Strategic Goals

Appendix II. Definitions

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

If you believe you are a good candidate for this funding opportunity, register in the appropriate systems now and review the application package. If you are already registered, make sure your registration is active and up-to-date.

SAM.gov Registration You must have an active and up-to-date account with SAM.gov, at the time of application and throughout the life of any award.

To register, go to SAM.gov Entity Registration and click Get Started. From the same page, you can also click on the Entity Registration Checklist for the information you will need to register.

It can take several weeks to register in SAM.gov, so please get started now if you are planning to apply. SAM.gov also provides each organization with a unique entity identifier (UEI). A valid UEI is required to apply for funding.

Grants.gov Registration You must have an active Grants.gov registration. This requires a Login.gov registration as well.

See step-by-step instructions at the Grants .gov Quick Start Guide for Applicants. You must apply for funding using Grants.gov, unless HUD has approved your waiver request.

See Section VI.B. Submission Methods.

Find the Application Package Use the Grants Search at Grants.gov and search for opportunity number FR-6900-N-35 . The application package has all the online forms you need to apply. You also need to access the Download Instructions link and review the content before you apply.

If you have other technical difficulties using Grants.gov, access the Support Center on Grants.gov for assistance.

To get updates on changes to this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), click Subscribe from the View Grant Opportunity page for this NOFO on Grants.gov.

Application Deadline Applications are due by 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time on 04/17/2025.

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I. BASIC INFORMATION

This NOFO solicits applications for Youth Homeless Demonstration Program for Fiscal Year 2024. Review the entire NOFO to understand the application requirements in full. HUD will not fund incomplete or ineligible applications.

A. Summary Through the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (YHDP) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) HUD may select between 12 and 25 communities, with a priority for communities with substantial rural populations in up to 8 locations, to receive a total of $72,000,000 to implement projects to demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to youth experiencing homelessness can dramatically reduce youth homelessness. To learn more about the YHDP, see Section III.Program Description

This NOFO outlines the methodology HUD will use to select communities and determine award amounts available to each awarded community through the YHDP. In order to be eligible to apply for this NOFO, you must be a Collaborative Applicant designated by your Continuum of Care (CoC) in the most recent CoC Program Registration process. Once HUD announces the selected communities, communities will have a total of 4 months to submit a Coordinated Community Plan (CCP), with the possibility of up to a two-month extension. After HUD approves the CCP, applicants may apply for projects using the funds made available to them through this NOFO. Communities must submit a Continuous Quality Improvement Plan (CQIP) that reviews the improvements and impact of the YHDP projects on youth homelessness in the community after YHDP projects have operated for approximately six months.

1. NOFO Summary Federal Agency Name: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

HUD Program Office: Community Planning and Development

Funding Opportunity Title: Youth Homeless Demonstration Program for Fiscal Year 2024

Announcement Type: Initial

Funding Opportunity Number: FR-6900-N-35

Assistance Listing Number(s): 14.276

Paperwork Reduction Act Information: 2506-0210

Key Dates:

Due Date for Application Submission: 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time on 04/17/2025

Due Date for Intergovernmental Review: See Section VI.C.1.

Anticipated Award Date: 07/02/2025

2. Funding Details Type of Funding Instrument

G (Grant)

Available Funds Funding of approximately $72,000,000 is available through this NOFO.

Additional funds may become available for award. Use of these funds is subject to statutory constraints. All awards are subject to the selection process contained in this NOFO.

Number of Awards HUD expects to make approximately 12 awards from the funds available under this NOFO.

Period of Performance Estimated Project Start Date:

10/01/2026 Estimated Project End Date:

09/30/2028 Length of Project Periods:

24-month project period and budget period

Other

Length of Periods Explanation:

HUD will award projects for an initial term of 24-30 months. Recipients may renew YHDP project grants, except planning grants, for 1-year grant terms under the CoC Program. See Section I.C.1 of Appendix III for more information.

B. Agency Contact(s) See Contact and Support section of this NOFO.

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II. ELIGIBILITY

You are invited to apply if your organization is an eligible entity type and meets the funding conditions included in the NOFO. HUD will review applications from eligible applicants using the criteria in Section V of this NOFO.

A. Eligible Applicants

1. Eligible Entity Types:

00 (State governments)

01 (County governments)

02 (City or township governments)

04 (Special district governments)

25 (Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification))

Additional Information on Eligibility

Faith-based organizations may apply on the same basis as any other organization.

Individuals are ineligible applicants.

Indian Tribes and tribally designated housing entities as defined in Section 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4103)

Nonprofits, as demonstrated by criteria at 24 CFR 5.109(l)(1) through 24 CFR 5.109(l)(5).

2. Restrictions

a. Statutory and Regulatory Requirements Affecting Eligibility You must comply with the current General Statutory and Regulatory Requirements Affecting Eligibility for HUD’s Competitive Programs. HUD will review your eligibility before issuing an award. As part of this review, HUD uses SAM.gov and Department of Treasury data.

b. Application Eligibility Your application is considered for funding if it satisfies the application review requirements in Section V. of this NOFO.

Community Selection application:

Only Collaborative Applicants, who are designated by their local CoC and registered through the most recent CoC Program Registration process, are eligible to apply for community selection through this NOFO. The Collaborative Applicant can apply for any community located within its CoC’s geographic area. The Collaborative Applicant can also apply for multiple communities located within its CoC’s geographic area; however, HUD will not select more than one community within a CoC's geographic area.

This part of the NOFO is for community selection only. Applications for funding individual projects occurs after HUD selects communities and those communities complete and submit a Coordinated Community Plan to HUD. HUD outlines the requirements for applying for projects in Appendix III.

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Project application:

YHDP leads designate Project Applicants who are eligible to apply for grant funds. The YHDP lead may apply for projects under this Demonstration as well. YHDP leads that are not Unified Funding Agencies (UFAs) may also designate an eligible applicant to be the recipient of the planning grant. UFAs must apply for and be recipient of all grants for their community. For-profit entities are not eligible to apply for grants or to be subrecipients of grant funds.

For a dedicated HMIS grant, the project applicant must either be the UFA (when there is a UFA for the community) or the HMIS Lead (when there is no UFA for the community).

To be considered for funding, Project Applicants must provide completed information required by HUD, outlined in Appendix III of this NOFO

Eligible Program Participants.

Funds awarded under the YHDP must only be used to serve:

a. Youth, as defined in Appendix II, who initially qualify as homeless under paragraph (1) or

(2) of the homeless definition in 24 CFR 578.3 or section 103(b) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, or;

b. Youth who initially qualify to be served as stated in I.C.5 of Appendix III.

Notwithstanding the above, youth-serving providers (defined in I.C.6 of Appendix III) funded under this NOFO may serve unaccompanied youth (defined in Appendix II) who are living in unsafe situations or families headed by youth who are living in unsafe situations (defined in I.C.6 of Appendix III).

As explained in I.C.6 of Appendix III, youth aged 24 and under must not be required to provide third-party documentation that they meet the homeless definition in 24 CFR 578.3 or section 103(b) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act as a condition for receiving services funded under the YHDP NOFO.

B. Cost Sharing or Matching This Program requires cost sharing or matching, or leverage, as described below.

This NOFO requires a Project Applicant to leverage resources through cost sharing or matching as described in the regulation at 24 CFR 578.73, except as otherwise provided in Appendix III, I.C.1.b.3 and I.C.1.b.4.

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III. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

A. Purpose The goal of YHDP is to support selected communities in the development and implementation projects that demonstrate how a comprehensive community approach to serving youth experiencing homelessness can dramatically reduce youth homelessness. This community planning approach guides communities in designing solutions that match the needs in their community. This demonstration program assists youth experiencing homelessness, age 24 and under, including unaccompanied youth and pregnant or parenting youth who are experiencing homelessness. Through this NOFO, HUD will select between 12 and 25 communities, with a priority for communities with substantial rural populations in up to eight locations, and award a total of approximately $72,000,000 to these selected communities. Per the FY2024 HUD Appropriation, awarded communities will use these funds “to implement projects to demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to serving homeless youth, age 24 and under ... can dramatically reduce youth homelessness.”

Separate from this NOFO, technical assistance will be available to selected communities to assist them in analyzing community strengths and needs, developing a CCP, implementing the plan, and then engaging in a process of continuous quality improvement.

Community selection and funding determination process

After the application submission deadline, HUD will take several months to assess the applications and select communities. HUD will use the following process to select communities and determine the total funding to be made available in each community under this NOFO.

HUD will rank community applications in order of responses to the rating factors outlined in Section V.B of this NOFO, including awarding 10 bonus points to the eight highest ranking applications from communities with a substantial rural population. If two or more communities receive the same score, HUD will rank the applications according to the score on Youth Collaboration Rating Factor. For each community selected under this competition, HUD will make a minimum of $500,000 and a maximum of $15 million available per project period for projects in the community.

HUD will use a formula, outlined below, to determine each selected community's maximum total funding in order to scale awards to estimated community need. The formula uses the following factors:

• Youth in Poverty: Number of people age 12-24 who are in poverty in the geographic area (# of youth in poverty, using data from the American Community Survey);

• FMR: The 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent (FMR) in the geographic area, and if there is more than one FMR for the geographic area, HUD will calculate a population weighted average (FMR).

HUD will initially select 12 community applications, up to six of which may be from an eligible previously awarded YHDP community. These applications will be the highest scoring community applications except HUD will only select up to the 6 highest scoring applications from eligible previously awarded YHDP communities. HUD will then apply the formula described below with these first 12 communities and then select further communities, ensuring that no more than 6 previously awarded communities are selected in total, and rerun the formula for all selected communities, as explained below.

1. For each selected community HUD will establish a formula factor:

1. For all eligible previously selected communities, the formula factor is the number of Youth in Poverty multiplied by the FMR for the geographic area listed in the community application and divided by two.

2. For all other communities, the formula factor is the number of Youth in Poverty multiplied by the FMR for the geographic area listed in the community application.

2. For each selected community, HUD will divide the community’s formula factor by the sum of the formula factors for all communities selected. This is called the community ratio.

3. HUD will allocate an initial formula amount of $500,000 to each selected community.

4. For each selected community, HUD will multiply its community ratio by the total YHDP funding remaining after step 3, then add the resulting amount to the community’s initial formula amount in step 3 to come up with the community’s new formula amount.

5. HUD will calculate the ratio of the formula amount for each selected community to the sum of formula factor (see step 1) for all selected communities.

If, after HUD applies the formula to the initial community applications, no ratio calculated in step 5 is less than 0.14, then HUD will select the next highest-scoring community from the eligible applicant pool and repeat steps 1 through 5 for all selected communities. HUD will repeat this process (selecting the next highest-scoring community, and redoing steps 1 through 5 for all selected communities), until any ratio calculated in step 5 is less than 0.14 or 25 communities are selected. Once a selected community falls below a ratio of 0.14 or 25 communities are selected and receive formula amounts, HUD will stop selecting communities.

The purpose of this step is to ensure that each selected community receives enough funding to have a substantial impact on youth homelessness. It does this by setting a minimum level of funding, adjusted for the level of need and cost of housing in the community. Additionally, to this end, HUD will limit the total amount of funding a community may receive to $15 million through this competition and, for eligible previously awarded YHDP communities, no more than $25 million across the previous award amount and the amount awarded under this NOFO.

Community selection announcement and YHDP project requirements

Once HUD announces the selected communities, communities will have a total of 4 months to submit a CCP. Communities may request up to a 2-month extension of this deadline by emailing youthdemo@hud.gov. See Section III.G and Appendix IV of this NOFO for further information.

Immediately following the announcement of selected communities, HUD will make up to three percent of the Community’s available award amount available to the Collaborative Applicant or their designee to fund initial planning activities. Communities may use these funds for planning activities subject to 578.39(b) and (c) as may be amended from time to time. Funds used on mailto:youthdemo@hud.gov.

initial planning activities may only be used for costs of planning related to preventing and ending youth homelessness in the Community. Additionally, during plan development, Collaborative Applicants or their designee may apply for additional planning projects, totaling up to ten percent of the total community funding amount, to support the selected community's continued planning efforts. After the CCP is approved, applicants may apply for projects up to the total amount made available to the community under the YHDP, minus amounts previously awarded for planning activities. Communities may choose to split YHDP funding among any number of projects in the community. For example, communities may use YHDP funding for a single project or split among 10 projects.

After projects funded with YHDP have operated for approximately six months, communities must submit a CQIP that reviews the improvements and impact of the YHDP projects on youth homelessness in the community. See Section III.G and Appendix IV of this NOFO for further information.

HUD expects communities to fully participate in any evaluation activities conducted by HUD beginning no earlier than the announcement of community selection.

All awards and projects funded under this NOFO are subject to the following provisions of 24 CFR part 578, as may be amended from time to time, except where they conflict with the NOFO requirements, activities that the Recipient will implement and are authorized pursuant to I.C.1.a.

or b. of Appendix III of this NOFO, waivers issued by HUD, or with the proviso that Grant funds may only be used to serve youth, age twenty-four (24) and younger, who are experiencing homelessness: 24 CFR 578.3, 578.15, 578.23, 578.25, 578.29, 578.37, 578.43, 578.45, 578.47, 578.49, 578.51, 578.53, 578.55, 578.57, 578.59, 578.61, 578.63, 578.73, 578.75, 578.77, 578.79, 578.81, 578.83, 578.85, 578.87, 578.89, 578.91, 578.93, except in 578.93(c)(2), recipients must provide such information to the jurisdiction in which the project is located, 578.95, 578.97, 578.99, 578.103(a)(3) - (18) and (b) – (e), 578.105, 578.107 and 578.109. The requirements of 2 CFR 200.306, as may be amended from time to time, with the exception of 200.306(b)(5) apply.

Grants for planning costs are subject to 24 CFR 578.39(b) and (c), as may be amended from time to time, but Grant funds may only be used for costs of planning related to preventing and ending youth homelessness in the Community. Federal fair housing and nondiscrimination requirements cannot be waived.

If an applicant organization that is responsible for paying Youth Action Board (YAB) members for work performed as a YAB member wishes to submit a project for local YHDP selection, the applicant or collaborative applicant must submit a written request for exception to the provisions of 24 CFR 578.95 and comply with the conflict of interest exception request requirements found at 24 CFR 578.95(d)(2)(i)(A) but not 24 CFR 578.95 (d)(2)(i)(B).

B. Goals and Objectives

1. Applicable Goals and Objectives from HUD’s Strategic Plan This NOFO supports HUD’s mission and HUD’s Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022- 2026. The goals, objectives, and measures applicable to this NOFO are included in Appendix I.

These are in addition to increasing equity and improving customer experience - two overarching HUD priorities. Consider this information in your application and when tracking the success of https://www.hud.gov/HUD-FY22-26-Strategic-Plan-Focus-Areas https://www.hud.gov/HUD-FY22-26-Strategic-Plan-Focus-Areas your project, if selected for award. HUD will monitor compliance during the award performance period.

2. Civil Rights and Equity Goals The Fair Housing Act requires HUD funding to create diverse neighborhoods, increase housing choice, reduce inequality, and eliminate discrimination. Executive Orders 13985 and 14091 direct HUD programs to reduce racial disparities. Your application must respond to these requirements in Section V.B.3 of this NOFO. and if you receive this award, you must track and report your progress towards these goals.

3. Other Program Goals The demonstration has seven primary objectives:

• Prevent and End Youth Homelessness. YHDP provides funding, regulatory flexibility, and technical assistance to help communities develop housing and services for youth experiencing homelessness and make youth homelessness rare and, if it occurs, brief and non-recurring.

• Build national momentum. YHDP is designed to motivate state and local homelessness stakeholders and youth services providers, including Runaway and Homeless Youth providers across the country to prevent and end youth homelessness by forming new partnerships, addressing system barriers, testing promising strategies, and evaluating their outcomes;

• Promote equity in the delivery and outcomes of homeless assistance. Recipients must promote equity throughout the community's youth homeless response system for youth who are disproportionally more likely to experience homelessness, such as Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and LGBTQIA+ youth. Awarded communities will promote equity throughout their youth homeless response system and all YHDP projects will measure and demonstrate equitable delivery and outcomes. This includes communities identifying barriers that led to any disparities in subpopulations being served and taking steps to eliminate these barriers in the community's youth homeless response system.

• Highlight the importance of youth leadership: YHDP demonstrates effective models of strong leadership and agency by youth with lived experience in the community.

Create replicable best practices of youth leadership for other communities.

• Evaluate the coordinated community approach. YHDP will help researchers evaluate coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending youth homelessness, including local and state partnerships across sectors and other coordinated operational planning;

• Expand capacity. YHDP funds, technical assistance, and the required planning process will expand community capacity to serve youth experiencing homelessness (particularly by using a Housing First approach), pilot new models of assistance, and determine what array of interventions is necessary to serve the target population in their community;

• Evaluate performance measures. HUD will use data from YHDP projects to evaluate the use of performance measurement strategies designed to better measure youth outcomes and the connection between youth program outcomes and youth performance measures on overall system performance for the Continuum of Care (CoC); and

• Establish a framework for Federal program and Technical Assistance (TA) provider collaboration. YHDP is a model to test the most effective way for Federal https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/2021-01753/advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/22/2023-03779/further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal resources to interact within a state or local system to support a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.

C. Authority The funds announced in this NOFO were provided and authorized by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-42, approved March 9, 2024).

D. Unallowable Costs Not applicable

E. Indirect Costs If you expect to charge indirect costs to the award, submit the Indirect Cost Information (HUD-

426) with your application.

F. Program History This NOFO reflects requirements similar to those in the FY 2023 YHDP NOFO; however, the following changes were made:

• HUD is expanding the definition of Eligible Previously Awarded YHDP communities to include communities that received an FY2018 YHDP community designation.

Communities that have received an FY2016, FY2017 or FY2018 YHDP community designation are eligible to apply for and receive an additional YHDP community designation under this NOFO. Communities that are applying for additional YHDP funds for geography included in a previous YHDP award are required to answer additional rating factor questions and must respond to alternative rating factor questions regarding current YHDP project outcomes. HUD will award a community designation to no more than four eligible previously awarded YHDP communities.

• HUD reduced the minimum number of NOFO applications that can be funded under this award from 14 to 12 communities.

• HUD added several rating factor questions that ask communities to evaluate their current youth homelessness response system using data and modeling tools in Stella-P.

• This NOFO includes two additional Appendices that list relevant strategic goals and definitions; as a result, the appendices that were formerly labeled Appendix A and Appendix B are now labeled Appendix III and Appendix IV.

• Subject to HUD approval, YHDP communities and the YAB may select project recipients to administer multiple YHDP projects under one grant agreement. These selected project recipients are known as Consolidated YHDP Project Recipients. See Section II.2 of Appendix II and Appendix III for further information.

• HUD updated Appendix IV to reflect a new requirement for YHDP communities to develop and implement a Continuous Quality Improvement Plan (CQIP) within six months of the YHDP project's period of performance start date. The CQIP requires communities to create an evaluation plan to understand the impact that the YHDP projects have on reducing youth homelessness, understand the effectiveness of individual projects, and ensure the projects are achieving the goals outlined in the Coordinated Community Plan (CCP).

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• In the FY2023 YHDP NOFO, HUD established a phased approach to the submission of the CCP. In this NOFO, HUD is reverting to a single due date for the CCP but removing some requirements from the CCP and moving those requirements to the CQIP.

G. Other Information

a. Identifying a Target Community Area Applicants have the option of identifying the entire geographic area of the CoC as the demonstration community or designating a smaller area that includes a single community or group of communities within the CoC’s geographic area as the YHDP community. In addition, the CoC can designate the application as a rural community application, competing for the prioritization of up to 8 rural communities. If an applicant decides to submit two applications, one for the rural communities within the CoC and one for the non-rural areas or the entire CoC, HUD will consider both applications independently but will only select the highest scoring application per CoC.

HUD requires applicants to respond to the questions listed in Section IV.D regarding their proposed geographic area for the YHDP. Eligibility as a Rural Community will be determined based on the geographic areas designated by the community in Section IV.D; number of youth experiencing poverty will be verified using Federal census data.

HUD will consider applications for communities that received a community designation under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, FY2017 and FY2018 YHDP competitions provided that:

• The YHDP grants in the community have completed the initial 2-year YHDP grant term and an additional 1-year in operation after renewal or replacement using CoC program funding.

• The average funding utilization across the most recently expired YHDP project grants in the community at the time of the publication of this NOFO is at least 90 percent.

Additionally, HUD will consider applications from CoCs that were awarded for less than the total area of the CoC in FY2019- FY2022 YHDP competitions, as long as none of the geographic area was covered in the previously awarded application. CoCs that have added geographic areas to their CoC after a previous YHDP community designation may apply just for the new geographic area or may include the original area awarded plus the new geographic area.

This includes CoCs that have partnered with Tribes to include Tribal Reservation and Trust areas in the CoC’s geography. If a Previously Awarded YHDP Community was for an area smaller than the full CoC, they may apply for the same geographic area as in their previous award, or they may add additional geographic areas within their CoC geographic area, if none of those areas had previously been designated a YHDP community, or if they had, they are eligible to reapply under this NOFO.

Applicants that propose to include a reservation or trust land geographic area must include a tribal resolution from the tribe authorizing the applicant to do so or a letter from an official or principal of the Indian Tribe or TDHE who is authorized to act on behalf of the Indian Tribe or TDHE. Collaborative Applicants that represent a CoC that is made up of only tribal formula areas do not need to include a tribal resolution.

b. Develop a Coordinated Community Plan (CCP)

Selected communities are required to develop a CCP to prevent and end youth homelessness or to amend an existing local plan to address youth homelessness to include the required information in Appendix IV. Communities selected for funding under this Notice will have a total of 4 months to submit the CCP. Communities may request up to a 2-month extension of this deadline by sending an email to youthdemo@hud.gov. HUD expects that the planning process will lay the groundwork for implementation and provide a framework for the various projects for which the Project Applicants will apply.

HUD will only approve of a CCP that meets threshold criteria, including whether the plan addresses the mandatory structural components below:

Mandatory Structural Components of a CCP A CCP must include the following structural components:

• A model of the current and ideal youth homeless response system;

• A shared vision, mission, list of goals, and objectives;

• A list of new projects;

• A governance structure;

• A signature page that includes signatures of official representatives of at least the following systems:

o The Continuum of Care o Youth Action Board o Public Child Welfare Agencies o Local Government Agency o Tribal Government (if any) o Runaway and Homeless Youth Program Providers (if any)

More information on the required components of the CCP can be found in Appendix IV.

Plan Submission, HUD Review, and Release of Full Funding

Communities must submit the CCP within 4 months after announcement of the selected communities. Communities may request up to a 2-month extension of this deadline.

YHDP communities must submit their CCP to youthdemo@hud.gov. HUD will review and provide feedback of each submission within 2 weeks of receipt. All community plans must be compliant with all relevant Federal requirements, including fair housing and civil rights requirements. HUD reserves the right to reject a plan and require resubmission if the plan does not meet the requirements summarized above and described in Appendix IV.

Communities must submit a plan that meets all the requirements according to timelines discussed in Appendix IV. If HUD does not receive the CCP in this time frame, the selected community will lose access to all its remaining funding. Funding that has already been obligated for planning grants will remain available only for costs incurred before the deadline for the CCP. HUD will consider granting a 30-day extension for incurring costs if a community needs these funds to wind-down the YHDP planning efforts.

c. Develop a Continuous Quality Improvement Plan (CQIP) mailto:youthdemo@hud.gov.

HUD requires YHDP communities to develop a CQIP within six months after the period of performance start date of YHDP projects to assess whether the impact that the YHDP projects are having in reducing the number of youth experiencing homelessness and whether YHDP projects are operating in line with the CCP.

HUD will only approve of a CQIP that meets threshold criteria, including whether the plan addresses the mandatory components below:

• A plan for the regular assessment of the Youth Homeless Response system

• A completed assessment of the Youth Homeless Response system

• How the system addresses principles of ending youth homelessness

Communities must submit the CQIP within six months of the YHDP projects’ period of performance start date for non-planning projects. If a community has non-planning projects that have different period of performance start dates, the due date for the CQIP is within six months of the first non-planning period of performance start date. If the CQIP is submitted more than a year after the timeframe, consistent with 24 CFR 578.107, HUD may suspend project funds until the CQIP plan is submitted and approved by HUD.

d. Displacement, relocation and acquisition

HUD reminds applicants that the CoC program regulations at 24 CFR 578.83 include unique requirements addressing displacement, relocation, and acquisition. In addition to these program specific requirements, the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended, (URA) may apply. The URA generally applies when there is acquisition, rehabilitation or demolition for a Federally-funded program or project.

IV. APPLICATION CONTENTS AND FORMAT

Applications must include three main elements: a) standard forms, assurances, and certifications;

b) budget; and c) narratives and other attachments. The content, forms, and format for each element are included in this section.

You may use this section as a checklist to ensure you submit a complete application.

If you don’t provide the required documents in the correct format, your application is incomplete.

Do not submit password protected or encrypted files.

pages is the total maximum length of all narratives.

Double spaced 12-point Times New Roman font on letter sized paper (8 1/2 x 11 inches) with at least 1-inch margins on all sides.

A. Standard Forms, Assurances, and Certifications You must properly complete and submit with your application the standard forms, assurances, and certifications identified below. You can find all forms in the application package or review them and their instructions at Grants.gov Forms. You can also read more about standard forms on HUD’s Funding Opportunities page.

Forms/Assurances/Certifications Submission Requirement Notes/Description

Application for Federal Assistance

(SF-424)

Required with the application

Page limit: Not applicable File name: SF-424

Applicant and Recipient Assurances and Certifications

(HUD 424-B)

Required with the application

Page limit: Not applicable File name: HUD-424B

Applicant/Recipient Disclosure/Update Report (HUD 2880)

Required with the application and after award

Page limit: Not applicable File name: HUD-2880

Certification Regarding Lobbying Required with the application

Page limit: Not applicable.

File name: Lobbying Certification form

Disclosure of Lobbying Activities

(SF-LLL)

If applicable, required with the application

Page limit: Not applicable.

File name: SF-LLL

Element Submission Form Standard Forms, Assurances, and Certifications Upload using each required form.

Budget Use the required budget form.

Narratives and Other Attachments Insert each in the Attachments form.

https://www.grants.gov/forms https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/CFO/images/Standard-Application-Forms.pdf

Certification for a Drug-Free Workplace (HUD-50070)

Required with the application

Page limit: Not applicable.

File name: HUD-50070

Assurances for Non-Construction Programs (SF-424B)

If applicable, required with the application

Page limit: Not applicable File name: SF-424B

Indirect Cost Rate Certification

(HUD-426)

If applicable, this document is required with the application and after award

Page limit: Not applicable File name: ICR Doc.

Form location: download instructions

B. Budget You must submit a budget with your application to support your project narrative.

At a minimum, your budget must indicate direct and any indirect costs.

No budget form is required for this community selection application.

C. Narratives and Other Attachments If applicable, you must upload narrative and other attachments in Grants.gov using the Attachments Form. When using the Attachments Form, you can upload PDF, Word or Excel formats.

Document Submission Requirement Notes/Description

Response to Rating Factors Required with the application

See Section V.B.

File name: Rating Factor Narrative

Nonprofit Status – Documentation If applicable, this document is required with the application

Page limit: Not applicable File name:

Nonprofit Doc.

Advancing Racial Equity (ARE) Narrative Required with the application; see further details below.

Page limit: 1 page File name: ARE Narrative

Experience Promoting Racial Equity (EPRE) Narrative

Required with the application; see further details below.

Page limit: 1 page File Name: EPRE Narrative

Affirmative Marketing and Outreach (AMO) Narrative

Required with the application; see further details below.

Page limit: 1 page File Name: AMO Narrative

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Narrative

Required with the application; see further details below.

Page limit: 1 page File name: AFFH Narrative

Code of Conduct If not included in HUD’s eLibrary, this document is

Page limit: Not applicable https://grants.gov https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/spm/gmomgmt/grantsinfo/conductgrants

D. Other Application Content

• Applicants are required to respond to the following questions regarding their proposed geographic area for the YHDP. Applicants must indicate:

o Whether you are requesting participation as a rural community in the YHDP through this application.

o The geographic area that the application covers. If the application covers a geographic area smaller than an entire CoC, the application must list all counties covered by the application and a justification for the decision to apply for a geographic area smaller than an entire CoC.

• Tribal Consent: A tribal resolution from the tribe authorizing the applicant to include trust lands or reservations land in the application or a letter from an official or principal of the Indian Tribe or TDHE who is authorized to act on behalf of the Indian Tribe or TDHE, if required under III.G.

• Narrative: Responses to the rating factors in Section V.B

• Equity Narratives: All applicants for YHDP projects must submit narratives responses to the four equity requirements: Advancing Racial Equity, Affirmative Marketing and Outreach, Experience Promoting Racial Equity, and Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.

o For Collaborative Applicants or their designee who will receive the initial planning grant, you will submit each equity narrative (Advancing Racial Equity, Affirmative Marketing and Outreach, Experience Promoting Racial Equity, and Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing) as an attachment to this NOFO.

o All other project applicants, you will submit their equity narratives as follows:

▪ Advancing Racial Equity must be addressed as outlined in Appendix III of this NOFO

▪ Affirmative Marketing & Outreach must be addressed as outlined in

Appendix III

• Demonstration of Support: Youth Action Board demonstration of support as described in Section V.B under Youth Collaboration - please name the attachment “Youth Action Board Support” (required to receive the maximum number of points under section V.B).

Individual requirements are outlined below, depending on the format submitted.

Communities must select one of the following formats:

o Written letters or statements: please attach PDF copies to the Grants.gov application. If the written material is an online post or website, please take a screenshot that includes a date stamp that is prior to the due date this NOFO.

Written submissions should be a maximum of 5 pages, double-spaced, with 12-point font.

required with the application

File name: Code of Conduct Acceptable Content o Audio: HUD will accept audio submissions of up to 10 minutes. These recordings may be attached to the Grants.gov application (limit of 200 mb file size) or may be a link to an online source. If submitting a link, please attach a screenshot of the online source that includes a date stamp that is prior to the due date of this NOFO. HUD cannot accept submissions that require a login or subscription.

o Video: HUD will accept video submissions of up to 10 minutes. These recordings may be attached to the Grants.gov application (limit of 200 mb file size) or may be a link to an online source. If submitting a link, please attach a screenshot of the online source that includes a date stamp that is prior to the due date of this NOFO. HUD cannot accept submissions that require a login or subscription.

• Letter of Support: Public Child Welfare Agency (PCWA) letter of support as described in Section V.B under Collaboration - please name the attachment "PCWA Letter of Support" (required to receive the maximum number of points under section V.B)

• Stella P Visuals Attachment (optional): You must submit the Stella P visuals that you use to answer questions 3 and 4 under the Community Need rating factor. You can include these visuals in the Narrative or you may choose to include them as a separate attachment. Reviewers will use the visuals in the Stella P Visuals Attachment as a reference when reviewing the narrative responses. Reviewers will only review narrative responses for these questions in the Narrative attachment- please do not include any narrative information in the Stella P Visuals Attachment.

V. APPLICATION REVIEW INFORMATION

A. Threshold Review HUD reviews each application to make sure it meets the following threshold requirements. If you meet all threshold requirements, your application will advance to a merit review. If you fail to meet one or more threshold requirements, your application is not eligible for HUD funding.

1. Eligible Applicant You must meet the applicant eligibility criteria in this NOFO. HUD will not fund applications from ineligible applicants.

2. Resolution of Civil Rights Matters An application will not advance for merit review unless the application(s) resolves all outstanding civil rights matters before the application deadline.

a. An applicant is not eligible for funding if that applicant has any of the charges, cause determinations, lawsuits, or letters of findings referenced in subparagraphs (1) – (5) that are not resolved to HUD’s satisfaction before or on the application deadline date for this NOFO

(1) Charges from HUD concerning a systemic violation of the Fair Housing Act or receipt of a cause determination from a substantially equivalent state or local fair housing agency concerning a systemic violation of a substantially equivalent state or local fair housing law proscribing discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, disability, or familial status;

(2) Status as a defendant in a Fair Housing Act lawsuit filed by the United States alleging a pattern or practice of discrimination or denial of rights to a group of persons raising an issue of general public importance under 42 U.S.C. § 3614(a);

(3) Status as a defendant in any other lawsuit filed or joined by the Department of Justice, or in which the Department of Justice has intervened, or filed an amicus brief or statement of interest, alleging a pattern or practice or systemic violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Violence Against Women Act, or a claim under the False Claims Act related to fair housing, non-discrimination, or civil rights generally including an alleged failure to affirmatively further fair housing;

(4) Receipt of a letter of findings identifying systemic non-compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 109 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; Violence Against Women Act; or the Americans with Disabilities Act; or

(5) Receipt of a cause determination from a substantially equivalent state or local fair housing agency concerning a systemic violation of provisions of a state or local law prohibiting discrimination in housing based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or lawful source of income.

b. HUD will determine if actions to resolve the charge, cause determination, lawsuit, or letter of findings taken before the application deadline date will resolve the matter.

Examples of actions that may be sufficient to resolve the matter include, but are not limited to:

(1) Current compliance with a voluntary compliance agreement signed by all the parties;

(2) Current compliance with a HUD-approved conciliation agreement signed by all the parties;

(3) Current compliance with a conciliation agreement signed by all the parties and approved by the state governmental or local administrative agency with jurisdiction over the matter;

(4) Current compliance with a consent order or consent decree;

(5) Current compliance with a final judicial ruling or administrative ruling or decision; or

(6) Dismissal of charges.

3. Timely Submission of Applications Late applications are not eligible for funding. See deadlines in Section VI of this NOFO.

4. Correct Funding Opportunity Number You must ensure that the Funding Opportunity Number in box 12 on your SF-424 matches the number associated with this NOFO. If the numbers do not match, your application is not eligible for HUD funding.

B. Merit Review HUD expects to evaluate and score your application using the following merit criteria and process. Merit reviewers evaluate and score all applications that pass the threshold review.

Merit reviewers may include Federal and non-Federal persons. Reviewers receive a copy of your application to evaluate and score each application separately.

Merit Review Summary

1. Rating Factors Your application must include a response to the following criteria.

Rating Factors Details

Criterion Total number of points = 110 YAB Integration 20 points Community Need 25 points Collaboration 20 points Youth Collaboration 20 points Data and Evaluation Capacity 15 points

Total 100 points Rural Bonus 10 points

Criterion Max points = 110 YAB Integration 20 max points HUD will award up to 20 points to applicants that demonstrate that the CoC actively engages potential YAB members, ensures that YAB members represent a diverse range of backgrounds and that the YAB is fully integrated and prioritized in the CoC. This rating factor concentrates on the support opportunities available to the YAB.

1. Describe the role of the YAB in the CoC including if the YAB is a separate committee and if YAB members or youth with lived experience sit on the CoC executive board. To receive full points, applicants should demonstrate, using an example or a decision-making flow-chart, how YAB recommendations and decisions are implemented by the CoC.

2. What projects or activities will your community’s YAB work on during the period between the YHDP NOFO application and award announcement? To receive full points, applicant must commit to working with the YAB on the system performance maps discussed in the Community Need rating factor. Community applicants may request technical assistance to assist YAB members with system performance analysis after the NOFO competition closes by filling out the form at https://www.hudexchange.info/program-support/technical-assistance/

3. Is the membership of the YAB reflective of the population of youth and young adults experiencing homelessness in the community?

1. Describe the prevalence of youth of color, LGBTQIA+, and gender non-conforming youth in the general…