Deadline: 3/14/2019 LOI

Amount: unspecified

Website: https://youth.gov/youth-topics/reconnecting-youth/performance-partnership-pilots/round-4

Description:

The purpose of this program is to support pilot sites in testing innovative, outcome-focused strategies to achieve significant improvements in educational, employment, and other key outcomes for disconnected youth. Disconnected youth include individuals between the ages of 14 and 24 who are low-income and either homeless, in foster care, involved in the juvenile justice system, unemployed, or not enrolled in or at risk of dropping out of an educational institution.

This program seeks to relieve burden, break down silos, increase flexibility, and provide state, local, and tribal governments greater freedom to innovate by giving the Department of Education (ED); the Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Justice (DOJ); the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS); and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) authority to waive federal statutory and regulatory requirements that inhibit effective service delivery for disconnected youth. Pilot sites will be enabled to use the flexibility provided by this program to blend FY 2018 and FY 2019 federal funds and obtain waivers of program requirements, including statutory, regulatory, and administrative requirements that are barriers to achieving improved outcomes for youth-serving programs.