IL
Department of Human Services
DHS 2014
Community Youth Employment Program - Request for Application
(RFA)
The
Department of Human Services will administer a grant program that provides
eligible youth with age appropriate job training, life skills, counseling,
work-readiness skills and supervised work experience. This program presents an
opportunity to connect youth to the skills that are needed to enter and advance
in the workforce.
ELIGIBILE APPLICANTS / PROGRAM TIMELINE
Eligible applicants must
have the administrative and fiscal capacity to administer the program according
to the Department’s requirements and have the capability to be the “EMPLOYER
OF RECORD” including the administration of a payroll system for the employed
youth. Priority will be given to projects that will
target activity during the Summer of 2014 (starting June 1, 2014). Eligible
applicants include:
· Community-based organizations throughout
Illinois that have received state grant funds and successfully administered a
summer youth employment program.
· Community-based organizations that have not
received state grant funds (for summer youth programs) that can demonstrate the
capacity to run a summer youth employment program in the following counties:
Adams, Alexander, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin,
Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Kankakee, Macon, Marion, Massac,
Peoria, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Sangamon, St. Clair, Union,
Vermilion, Williamson, Winnebago.
Eligible youth that can
participate in the program must be the age of 16 to 24 and be served under one
of the following programs or meet the income requirement:
·
National
School Lunch Program
·
Workforce
Investment Act
·
Food Stamp /
SNAP Program
·
Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families, or
·
Family income
is below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL)
·
Court-involved or at-risk youth
·
Youth with
disabilities
APPLICATION INFORMATION & DEADLINE
DHS
applications for funding are due by April 25, 2014. Funding is subject to
appropriation in the DHS Fiscal Year 2015 budget. Please
note that the 2014 Summer Youth Program with be coordinated with multiple state
agencies. Organizations will not be awarded contracts and/or grants from
multiple agencies to administer the summer program. Organizations that have
administered the program in previous years are encouraged to apply to that same
state agency. The participating agencies include:
Acting
Associate Director
Division of
Family and Community Services
Illinois
Department of Human Services
401 South
Clinton | 4th Floor | Chicago, Illinois 60607
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