Funding availability for system of care, independent youth housing, and behavioral health support
The Office of Homeless Youth is accepting applications through May 16
Commerce is now accepting applications for three separate funding opportunities to support youth programs in Washington.
System of Care grants: $1.86 million in grant funding for system of care services. The funding is available to eligible organizations to provide a continuum of innovative approaches to engage and assist youth and young adults, ages 13-24, who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness after exiting a public system of care.
Funding is intended to:
- Expand geographic access of system of care services.
- Incorporate peer specialists.
- Expand systems served to include inpatient behavioral health, foster care, juvenile rehabilitation, and county detention.
- Use $500,000 of this funding solely for assisting young adults discharging from inpatient behavioral health treatment facilities to obtain housing.
Independent Youth Housing program: $3.85 million will be available to eligible organization to fund the Independent Youth Housing program.
Funding is intended to:
- Provide rental assistance, related housing costs and case management to young adults, ages 18-24, who have been a dependent of the state.
- Increase funding to meet need with existing IYHP providers in King, Pierce, Spokane, Thurston, and Yakima counties due to newly expanded eligibility criteria (SB 5566).
- Expand geographic access of IYHP through new providers.
- Improve access to IYHP for underserved and/or disproportionally impacted populations such as BIPOC and LGBTQ2 young adults.
Behavioral health support / Ancillary therapeutic services: $524,000 available to licensed overnight youth shelters, HOPE Centers, Crisis Residential Centers (CRC), and HOPE/CRC centers to serve youth, ages 12-17.
Funding is intended to:
- Provide behavioral health support for youth in crisis. Services could be individual, group, or a combination.
- Add capacity onsite for enhanced mental health and substance use related support that is trauma informed, culturally competent, client driven, and evidence based.
- Aim proposals to traditionally underserved populations such as Blacks/African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Latinx, Youth exiting systems of care, People with disabilities, Immigrants and Refugees, Non-English speakers, People hurt or harmed by domestic, sexual or family violence.
Homeless Student Stability program: $865,000 available to eligible organizations.
Funding is intended to:
- Provide educational stability by promoting housing stability to students in the public K-12 system and their families experiencing homelessness. This includes unaccompanied students experiencing homelessness.
- Develop and expand collaborative strategies between housing and education partners to promote housing and educational stability.
- Develop and implement evidence-informed strategies to address racial inequities among students in the public K-12 system and their families experiencing homelessness.
 Timeline for applications
Applications for the individual funding opportunities must be completed separately.
Download the applications and supporting materials on the System of Care, Independent Youth Housing, behavioral health support and Homeless Student Stability webpages.
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Proposals are due: 4 p.m. Monday, May 16
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Estimated funding period: July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023
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