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County Youth Bureau Announces Availability of Youth Development
Funds
Published: June24, 2021 at 10:00 p.m.
By: Press Release from Lewis County Youth Bureau
YOUTH BUREAU
ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FUNDS (OCFS)
The Lewis County
Youth Bureau Advisory Board continues to seek applicants interested in
offering program opportunities for youth under the age of 21. Youth Development funding is targeted at
early intervention and prevention services that are designed to curb the
high priority problems affecting youth.
Programs should include a component of preventative education and or
drug prevention awareness. Applicants should consider providing services,
opportunities and supports for youth who have had their lives changed by
COVID-19. Connecting youth with each
other and with caring adults, assisting youth who may have been challenged
by their new learning environment and the effects of the pandemic on the
social/emotional/mental health of youth.
Eligible programs
must be outcome based and provide quantifiable and verifiable indicators by
which program performance will be measured. All programs seeking funding
must track outcome measures for the service, opportunity and support the
program is addressing. Lewis County
Youth Bureau expect to allocate $13,899 to programs.
The application
packet can be found on the Lewis County Website at www.lewiscounty.org/departments/lewis-county-youth-bureau/lewis-county-youth-bureau
Deadline for submission of proposals is July
23, 2021.
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