National Youth Advocate Program, Inc.

National Youth Advocate Program, Inc., a Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit organization, operates as a prime recipient of federal cooperative agreements funding residential foster care, shelter, and transitional care services for unaccompanied alien children, with supplementary work as a sub-recipient on community mental health and family preservation grants routed through state grantees. NYAP's federal footprint is concentrated in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) under CFDA 93.566 (Refugee and Entrant Assistance State/Replacement Designee Administered Programs), where NYAP holds 13 prime cooperative agreements generating the bulk of its federal obligation portfolio.

NYAP's core capability is the delivery of federally funded residential long-term foster care, group home shelter, and transitional foster care services for unaccompanied alien children arriving in the United States without parents or legal guardians. Services include temporary housing, medical care, education, mental health support, comprehensive background checks and sponsor vetting, case management, and safe reunification with vetted sponsors in the least restrictive care environment. NYAP operates licensed and unlicensed residential facilities across multiple states; recent prime awards include a $47.9 million cooperative agreement from ORR running April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2029 for residential group home, shelter, and transitional foster care services in Ohio; a $3.006 million ORR cooperative agreement for long-term foster care services running May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2029; a home study and post-release services cooperative agreement awarded September 29, 2023 covering all fifty states with ten regional offices (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, Illinois, Texas, Missouri, Colorado, California, and Oregon), committing NYAP to conduct at least one thousand home studies and provide post-release services to twenty-seven thousand minors through September 28, 2026; and long-term foster care services for forty-eight unaccompanied children in Bolingbrook, Illinois awarded May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2026.

The Department of Health and Human Services dominates NYAP's customer base entirely through the Administration for Children and Families (ORR component). The vendor's recent activity shows marked expansion — three awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, twenty-one in 2024 — with combined dollars obligated across all awards reaching $1.96 billion. However, only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a stable pipeline with minimal near-term recompete exposure. NYAP's sub-recipient work flows through the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services under Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services (federal grant sub-awards dating from 2023 through April 2026) and Family Preservation Program funding (sub-awards placed as of July 2025). This sub-work represents thirty-four of NYAP's forty-seven total awards but carries significantly lower individual dollar values relative to the prime ORR cooperative agreements, which anchor the vendor's federal footprint and organizational capacity.