Announcements

Application Deadline: May 19, 2023, 11:59 pm ET
DOL will award $15 million in eight grants in varied amounts of up to $2 million each. Projects serving young people in marginalized communities will be given priority. Specifically, the grants will support organization that offer the following types of activities:

• Career exploration services.
• Work readiness.
• Career counseling.
• On the job experience, including internships, seasonal and year-round employment, pre-apprenticeships and Registered Apprenticeships.
• Youth placement services for employment, education or training.

Learn more and apply.

Application deadline: May 4, 2023, 7:30 pm ET 
Applicant Q&A webinar: April 27, 2023, 2:00 - 4:30 pm ET Join online 

The Nurse Corps Scholarship Program (PDF, 52 pages) provides scholarships for nursing students in exchange for a minimum 2-year full-time service commitment (or part-time equivalent), at an eligible healthcare facility with a critical shortage of nurses. The scholarship covers: 

• Tuition and other eligible fees 

• Other reasonable costs including required books, clinical supplies, and instruments 

• Monthly stipend for living expenses ($1,527 for the 2023-2024 academic year)  

Learn more and apply. 

Application deadline: May 1, 2023 

The purpose of this grant program (PDF, 81 pages) is to train school personnel, emergency services personnel, law enforcement, veterans, and armed services members and their families to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental disorders and how to safely de-escalate crisis situations involving individuals with a mental illness. The program will also fund an organization to provide education on resources available in the community for individuals with a mental illness and other relevant resources, including how to establish linkages with school and/or community-based mental health agencies. At least two grants will be awarded to Tribes or Tribal organizations. Learn more and apply. 

The OCR released three new resources to help students, parents, coaches, athletic directors, and school officials evaluate whether a school is meeting its legal duty to provide equal athletic opportunity regardless of sex. The overview resource provides examples of the kinds of situations that could, depending upon facts and circumstances, raise Title IX concerns at any education level. The two specialized resources—one for K-12 schools, and one for colleges and universities—offer information specific to these education communities. Learn more. 

This resource (PDF, 8 pages) provides guidance to campus police and public safety personnel enforcing campus policies and community laws related to drug misuse, preventing crime, and participating in community policing efforts. This report provides tools to capitalize on their unique position to influence attitudes related to alcohol and other drug use, to provide education and support at “teachable moments,” and to intervene in potentially dangerous situations. Learn more (PDF, 8 pages). 

This quiz allows users to test their knowledge of how drugs affect youth and young adults. The accompanying Fentanyl Quiz asks users questions specific to fentanyl, which is the #1 drug threat facing Americans today. Learn more. 

This tool aims to combat child sexual exploitation and help young people remove sexually explicit photos and videos taken of them while under 18 years old from the internet. The initiative includes a public service announcement, produced by NCMEC, that will appear on television and online platforms that youth frequently visit. Users may remain anonymous while using the service. Learn more. 

Application deadline: April 28, 2023 

This opportunity provides funding to develop a sustainable infrastructure for school-based mental health programs and services. Award recipients will leverage their partnerships to implement mental health-related promotion, awareness, prevention, intervention, and resilience activities to ensure that school-aged youth have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health services. Learn more and apply. 

This resource provides a systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of mental health literacy interventions in schools, from 2013 to the present, on mental health knowledge, stigma, and help-seeking. Researchers found that these programs increase knowledge but did not see a difference in reducing stigma. Learn more. 

Grants.gov deadline: May 1, 2023, 8:59 pm ET 
JustGrants deadline: May 8, 2023, 8:59 pm ET  

Solicitation webinar date: March 28, 2023, 1:00 pm ET Register 

Through this opportunity (PDF, 30 pages), the BJA seeks applications for funding training and technical assistance (TTA) to support awardees under the BJA Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services School Violence Prevention Program. The successful applicant will serve as BJA's STOP School Violence National Training and Technical Assistance Center. Learn more and apply. 

Grants.gov Deadline: May 1, 2023, 8:59 pm ET 
JustGrants Deadline: May 8, 2023, 8:59 pm ET 

This opportunity (PDF, 26 pages) provides funding to create a regional drug data research center that promotes the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information critical in response to the overdose crisis and impacts of opioids, stimulants, and other substances. Institutions of higher education awarded under this solicitation and their respective data research centers will serve as both a model and technical advisor to translate this model to other regions in the United States. Learn more and apply. 

This toolkit (PDF, 15 pages) contains free resources that will help amplify this year's National Child Abuse Prevention Month (NCAPM) theme, "Doing Things Differently: Moving from the Challenge to the Change.” The toolkit contains sample social media posts, graphics, gifs, and a press release to raise awareness about child abuse prevention. Learn more. 

Date: March 28, 2023, 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET 

This webinar will introduce the Common Problems, Common Solutions: Looking Across Sectors at Strategies for Supporting Rural Youth and Families Tool-Kit to the field. Participants will discuss the content of the tool kit, which describes barriers that rural communities face in preventing youth involvement in the juvenile justice system. The tool kit also explores promising practices for serving justice-involved youth and their families in rural communities. Learn more and register.  

This tool kit (PDF, 45 pages) provides an overview of barriers that rural communities face in preventing youth involvement in the juvenile justice system. It also provides examples of innovative practices serving justice-involved youth and their families in rural communities that can be adapted by other juvenile justice practitioners. Learn more. 

Application deadline: May 8, 2023 

This program offers grants to improve and expand access to developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate services and supports for transition-aged youth and young adults (ages 16-25), who either have or are at risk for developing serious mental health conditions. Award recipients will be expected to identify and provide appropriate behavioral health interventions to transition-aged youth and young adults who are at risk for a serious emotional disturbance or serious mental illness. This program aims to improve emotional and behavioral health functioning so that this population of youth and young adults can maximize their potential to assume adult roles and responsibilities and lead full and productive lives. Learn more and apply. 

Application deadline: May 5, 2023 

The purpose of this program is to expand access to and delivery of comprehensive, coordinated, and evidenced-based services for youth, young adults, and families with a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or co-occurring disorders who are experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness (e.g., people exiting jail or prison without a place to live). Awardees will be expected to: 

1. Engage and connect the population of focus to behavioral health treatment, case management, and recovery support services 

2. Assist with identifying sustainable permanent housing by collaborating with homeless services organizations and housing providers, including public housing agencies 

3. Provide case management that includes care coordination/service delivery planning and other strategies that support stability across services and housing transitions 

With this program, SAMHSA aims to further expand opportunities to improve access to and delivery of coordinated, comprehensive services mental health services and improve housing stability. Learn more and apply. 

Application deadline: May 5, 2023 

The purpose of this program is to provide Tribes and Tribal organizations with tools and resources to plan and design a family-driven, community-based, and culturally and linguistically competent system of care for children and youth with or at risk for mental health or other challenges, and their families. With this program, SAMHSA aims to increase resilience and improve emotional health for AI/AN children, youth, and families. 

Eligible applicants include recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribes and Tribal organizations; Urban Indian Organizations; or consortia of Tribes or Tribal organizations; and Tribal colleges and universities (as identified by the American Indian Education Consortium). Learn more and apply. 

Application deadline: April 19, 2023 

This opportunity (PDF, 38 pages) will fund pilot demonstration projects to develop, implement, and build replicable treatment models for residential-based innovative care, treatment, and services for adolescents and youth transitioning out of foster care who have experienced a history of foster care involvement, child poverty, child abuse or neglect, human trafficking, juvenile justice involvement, substance use or misuse, or gang involvement. The program has an interest in providing services for youth in rural areas. 

Required project site activities include: 

• Providing crisis stabilization services 

• Supporting educational, literacy, and vocational services 

• Providing substance use or misuse treatment and services 

• Accessing and managing health and mental healthcare 

• Securing safe, stable, and affordable permanent housing 

• Promoting prosocial activities 

• Developing additional life skills 

Learn more and apply. 

This brief (PDF, 14 pages) describes the tools and processes that Youth At-Risk of Homelessness phase 2 (YARH-2) grantees implemented to identify and screen youth and young adults who might be eligible to participate in their comprehensive service models. The brief is created for individuals designing and implementing programs to serve youth and young adults in similar circumstances, including service providers, program administrators, program evaluators, and funders. Learn more. 

Application deadline: March 27, 2023 

High school students from Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts are encouraged to apply for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts’ six-week Nelson Fellowship. Nelson Fellows will be assigned to an individual judge and will work within that judge’s chambers. Fellows will work Monday – Friday, 9:00 am–5:00 pm. As Nelson Fellows, students will:  

• Attend court proceedings 

• Assist in office operations and court management 

• Participate in courses that focus on civil rights, writing, and public speaking 

• Argue a mock trial case in front of a federal judge 

• Meet community leaders 

• Tour local colleges 

• Visit organizations that assist with the college application process 

The fellowship will run from July 5, 2023 to August 11, 2023. Approximately 10-12 fellows will be selected. Fellows will receive a weekly educational stipend and coverage for all travel expenses. Learn more and apply.