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Somali Community Services of Seattle

Somali Community Services of Seattle will organize a free and open tutoring program for elementary and middle school students from January to June 2019. Approximately 35 youth will work with approximately 18 tutors from the UW and broader community. In addition, there will be a series of four open community workshops on topics including study skills and parenting students. It is the goal of this project to build community connections and skills in education.

Friends of Seward Park

Western Hemlocks are dying in the northwest quadrant of the Seward Park's old-growth forest located at 5895 Lake Washington Blvd. The cause and mechanism of the decline are unknown. A survey of current tree health and geographic distribution is needed. The Friends of Seward Park will work with youth from CHOOSE 180 on a hemlock survey, collecting data and training the youth in field biology and data analysis. A protocol devised by PNW ecologists and pathologists and approved by Seattle Parks will guide our work. CHOOSE 180 is a community-centered program in partnership with the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office to reduce race-based and economic disproportionality in the juvenile justice system. Friends of Seward Park will also collaborate with Forest Health Watch, provide data summaries, a preliminary analysis, and a short article submitted to an appropriate journal. This project will be completed by November 30, 2021.

Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc.

To support their youth internship and workforce development program, for 50 low-income youth, ages 14-18, who reside in Far Rockaway. The proposed Shore Corps training curriculum will combine interactive, on-the-job training in a variety of skills related to RWA’s mission and work around environmental stewardship and conservation, with more conventional, classroom-based training in basic employability skills that will leave participants ready to enter the workforce, especially in the area of green collar jobs.

Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc.

Shore Corps is green stewards youth internship and workforce development program for 80 low-income youth, ages 14-18, who reside in Far Rockaway.

Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc.

To support their youth internship and workforce development program, for 50 low-income youth, ages 14-18, who reside in Far Rockaway. The proposed Shore Corps training curriculum will combine interactive, on-the-job training in a variety of skills related to RWA’s mission and work around environmental stewardship and conservation, with more conventional, classroom-based training in basic employability skills that will leave participants ready to enter the workforce, especially in the area of green collar jobs.

Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc.

Shore Corps is green stewards youth internship and workforce development program for 80 low-income youth, ages 14-18, who reside in Far Rockaway.

National Park Service

This announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Service (NPS), intention to fund the following project with University of Alaska Anchorage under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) program. CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. The project intended award is $33,926. STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Agreements Concerning Cooperative Research and Training on NPS Resources (16 U.S.C. 1a-2(j)): The Secretary may enter into agreements with public or private educational institutions, States and their political subdivisions, for the purpose of developing adequate, coordinated, cooperative research and training programs concerning the resources of the National Park System, and pursuant to such agreements, to accept from and make available to the cooperator such technical and support staff, financial assistance for mutually agreed upon research projects, supplies and equipment, facilities, and administrative services relating to cooperative research units as the Secretary deems appropriate. STATEMENT OF JOINT OBJECTIVES/PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN: Project Description This is a collaborative effort between UAA and NPS to assess important staging areas in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (BELA) and Cape Krusenstern National Monument (CAKR) for post-breeding shorebirds and to communicate the findings of this effort to the local community, park visitors, and international communities. This project builds on existing research by Federal, State, local and international partners to pursue the global objective of addressing the effects of climate changes on wildlife. Phase 1) Plan survey design and logistics. During spring 2014, UAA will complete the NPS Research Compliance and Permit Process and will obtain the necessary permits for conducting low-level aerial surveys. UAA will schedule pilots to conduct surveys and will consult with local native/tribal groups about this project. Phase 2). Conduct aerial surveys. During two, one-week periods in late-July and early August 2014, coinciding with peak shorebird use, Dr. Taylor (UAA) will conduct low-level aerial surveys of transects. Phase 3) Summarize and communicate findings. Dr. Taylor (UAA) will summarize results of these surveys in a detailed technical report to be completed in spring 2015. This report will include a map showing spatial variation in post-breeding shorebird use across WEAR littoral habitats. It will also include site-specific estimates of shorebird use, tables detailing species composition, and figures describing migration phenology. Dr. Taylor (UAA) will deliver an oral presentation that summarizes this study to park managers and meet with park interpretative staff in Kotzebue. Public Purpose This project allows for facilitating partnership opportunities with neighboring countries (specifically Canada, Mexico, and neighboring Pacific Islands), and building sister park relationships throughout the Pacific and Arctic Oceans to enhance marine resource conservation and education of the public's natural resources. Dr. Audrey Taylor (UAA) is well connected with both Alaskan and Russian members of Beringia's shorebird research community and actively engages in partnerships, which address circumpolar and regional issues that affect shorebird conservation. These national and international level relationships will be critical for developing and implementing park-based shorebird conservation and management activities. Communicating the status of migratory birds to the public is crucial to local and international conservation efforts. Migratory birds offer a unique platform for conveying the concept of ecological connectivity across international boundaries. In this way, shorebirds provide educational opportunities that can connect youth in rural Alaskan communities to each other and to youth in Beringia and Asia and Central/South America. Using an existing and nationally recognized educational program about bird species of concern in northern Alaska (12 Species of Concern Program, delivered annually in schools in Anaktuvuk Pass and Fairbanks), the UAA and park interpretative staff will integrate shorebirds and these research activities into the curriculum for all communities neighboring BELA and CAKR. Similarly, the information from this project will be incorporated in an existing web-based educational program (developed in part by the P.I.) on western sandpipers, which is available to the public. The partner, in cooperation with the National Park Service will: 1. Provide a technical report detailing spatial variation in post-breeding shorebird use in WEAR littoral habitats. Provide a one-page, resource brief summary. 2. Provide regionally specific and relevant shorebird information to supplement the curriculum for the 12 Species of Concern Program (NPS, K-12 program delivered annually in schools in Anaktuvuk Pass and Fairbanks) to include shorebirds and the concept of pre-migratory staging in the life cycle of migratory birds. 3. UAA will complete the NPS Research Compliance and Permit Process and will obtain the necessary permits for conducting low-level aerial surveys. UAA will schedule pilots to conduct surveys and will consult with local native/tribal groups about this project. 4. Conduct low-level aerial surveys of transects. 5. Dr. Taylor (UAA) will deliver an oral presentation that summarizes this study to park managers, schools, and communities, and will summarize results of the surveys in a detailed technical report. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVOLVEMENT -Substantial Involvement : 1. Provide financial assistance to UAA in the amount of $33,926 for the project scope of work. 2. Assign (Lois DalleMolle) as the Agreement Technical Representative (ATR). 3. Provide additional technical assistance will the project by NPS staff Jeremy Mizel and Stacia Backensto (Arctic Network I&M (ARCN) Wildlife Biologists). 4. Coordinating aerial survey plan and use of NPS housing in Kotzebue. This will be completed by June, 1 2014. 5. Transfer of information to Dr. Taylor gathered from related and ongoing work concerning shorebirds in this area. This is ongoing throughout the course of this project. 6. Assist with design and completion of a resource brief for park managers, schools, and communities. This assistance will occur during October and November 2014. 7. Facilitate information transfer between Dr. Taylor and NPS interpretive staff and collaborate with Dr. Taylor and park interpretive staff to develop these portions of bird migration and species of concern curriculum for its delivery to schools in northwestern Alaska. This assistance will occur during October and November 2014. 8. Review of the aerial survey report by Jeremy Mizel (ARCN Wildlife Biologist) to be completed by May 1, 2015. 9. Provide assistance with survey design, analysis, map creation in GIS, and report writing. SINGLE-SOURCE JUSTIFICATION: Department of the Interior Policy (505 DM 2) requires a written justification which explains why competition is not practicable for each single-source award . The National Park Service did not solicit full and open competition for this award based the following criteria: (4) Unique Qualifications- Dr. Taylor is uniquely qualified to perform the activity based upon technical expertise and scholarship in addition to her partnerships and commitment to conservation of Beringia s shorebird research community. Dr. Taylor s prior work, using the same methods, on the North Slope of Alaska to document shorebird use of coastal habitat was fundamental in defining important shorebird habitat for the final IPA/EIS NPR-A document. These well-tested methods will be used to develop management plans for shorebirds in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and Cape Krusenstern National Monument. Technical contact information: Lois DalleMolle, lois_dalle-molle@nps.gov, 907-455-0635 National Park Service, Alaska Region. End of FOA

Skillman Foundation

Funds education and youth development programs in Detroit.

NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Suicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents, and rates of suicide in this age group have nearly doubled over the past two decades. However, our ability to predict and prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) is limited, in part due to an emphasis on static, distal risk factors. Emerging research suggests that irregularities in sleep and circadian rhythms—systems which undergo marked change during adolescence— may be promising short-term predictors of suicide risk. However, prior studies have largely relied on retrospective self-report measures, long follow-up intervals, and have often overlooked the contribution of the circadian system, which collectively limits insight into the mechanisms underlying these dynamic processes that may increase suicide risk. This K23 project aims to address these gaps by leveraging intensive longitudinal methods, including actigraphy and collecting a biological indicator of endogenous circadian rhythms in a clinically acute adolescent sample. The proposed study will recruit 100 adolescents hospitalized for STB. During hospitalization, participants will continuously wear wrist actigraphs to measure objective sleep metrics (e.g., total sleep time, sleep onset latency) and provide continuous urine samples to estimate endogenous circadian timing using 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (aMT6s), a reliable indicator of circadian timing. Participants will also complete ecological momentary assessments (EMA) of suicidal ideation throughout their inpatient stay. STB will be reassessed at 1 and 3 months post-discharge, a period of heightened suicide risk. Three aims guide the project: (1) to test whether night-to-night variations in sleep predict next-day SI during hospitalization and STB after discharge; (2) to evaluate whether later circadian timing is associated with higher SI during hospitalization, increased risk for STB post-discharge, and shifts in the timing of SI toward later hours; and (3) to examine whether greater circadian misalignment—i.e., discrepancies between sleep behaviors and the biological clock—predicts increased STB both during hospitalization and after discharge. The proposed training plan complements the Candidate's research plan and will provide the Candidate with rigorous training in actigraphy, biological measurement of circadian rhythms, and advanced longitudinal data analysis. A team of leading scholars will provide expert mentorship in the assessment of adolescent suicide, sleep and circadian biology, and, intensive longitudinal methods, and biostatistics. The project is embedded in a rich, interdisciplinary research environment at Massachusetts General Hospital. By identifying modifiable, objective markers of short-term suicide risk, this research has the potential to advance predictive models and inform clinical interventions, particularly chronotherapeutic approaches. The proposed study will promote the Candidate's long-term goal of establishing an independent program of research focused on leveraging sleep and circadian science to improve youth mental health and reduce STB.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis

The purpose of this program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth and young adults ages 12 to 20 in communities throughout the United States.IMPORTANT NOTE: SAMHSA will accept and review only the first 60 complete, successfully submitted, and high-quality applications received via eRA. Once this threshold is met, the submission portal will close, and no further applications will be considered.

National Park Service

Youth Engagement and Development Program. The project objective is to support and stimulate work, education and training opportunities for a young adult through collaborative participation in assisting the Exotic Plant Management (EPMT) Program Coordinator and team with coordinating data management activities for field activities involving prep work and post-field work.

National Park Service

The Trades Skills Program is a school year youth program for students studying the trades such as electrician, painting and carpentry. The Trades Skills program is part of the Spindle City Corps (SCC) youth program supported by CTI, a long-standing partner in the Northeast region uniquely qualified to produce programs related to the Lowell community. The CTI is a non-profit community organization that was formed in 1965 to assist low-income people to become self-sufficient, to alleviate the effects of poverty, and to assist low-income people to participate in the decisions that affect their lives; and serves as one of the leaders in the city s youth partnership.

StandUp for Kids

Funds outreach and support programs for homeless and at-risk youth.

Starbucks Foundation

Funds youth education and workforce readiness programs in Starbucks communities.

Starbucks Foundation

Supports programs serving opportunity youth, military veterans and families, and environmental sustainability initiatives.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis

The purpose of this program is to enhance the capacity of statewide, mental health family-controlled organizations to support, train, and mentor family members/primary caregivers. The focus of this program is on family members/primary caregivers who are raising children, youth, and young adults with serious emotional disturbance or co-occurring disorders.

Administration for Children & Families - ACYF/FYSB

<p>The Street Outreach Program (SOP) provides street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of human trafficking in persons.&nbsp; These services, targeted in areas where street youth congregate, are designed to assist such youth in making healthy choices and providing them access to shelter or stable housing, as well as basic needs, including food, hygiene packages, and information on a range of available services.</p>

Administration for Children & Families - ACYF/FYSB

The Street Outreach Program (SOP) provides street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of human trafficking in persons. These services, targeted in areas where street youth congregate, are designed to assist such youth in making healthy choices and providing them access to shelter or stable housing, as well as basic needs, including food, hygiene packages, and information on a range of available services.

National Park Service

This project targets youth who are seeking degrees in fire protection engineering or structural fire management programs. The interns will be placed at various parks where there is a need to focus on projects such as annual fire inspections, developing inspection testing and maintenance contracts, developing hot work permit programs, fire extinguisher training, hydrant flow tests, and other structural fire prevention related projects. In addition, interns will be assigned a historic building in the park and will be asked to assess the structural fire risks that could result in the loss of life or the loss of the structure in a structural fire event. Interns will address the risk based on their knowledge of fire codes and provide recommendations to mitigate the risks in a written report.

NIDA - National Institute on Drug Abuse

PROJECT SUMMARY Adolescent substance use is a pressing problem, with 13.0% of 8th graders, 23.1% of 10th graders, and 37.4% of 12th graders reporting current alcohol, cannabis, or nicotine use. While school attendance is a protective feature against substance use, 22% of students are exposed to substance distribution at school annually. Schools offer opportunities for universal programming to enhance adolescent health and well-being, including to address substance-related behaviors. Technology-facilitated reporting systems (TFRS) are school-based see-something-say-something peer bystander reporting systems. Although originally designed for violence prevention, 10-11% of submitted tips are for substance-related concerns, resulting in thousands of substance- related tips each year. As of 2024, 34 states have statewide TFRS, but empirical literature on TFRS focuses on violence-related tips, and little is known about the specific substances, behaviors, timing, geographic distribution, and outcomes of tips, nor about the practices, policies, and procedures employed by school personnel to respond to substance-related tips. In North Carolina, youth are trained in schools to use the statewide TFRS to submit information about peer concerning behaviors; once submitted, tips are triaged immediately by a trained counselor at the Sandy Hook Promise National Crisis Center, and referred by life- threatening status to relevant responders (e.g., emergency services for imminent threats or school personnel for issues like vaping). Using mixed natural language processing, statistical, and qualitative methods, we will draw tip-level data across 6 years and collect qualitative interviews from school personnel responsible for addressing information submitted through the TFRS to understand the types of substances and behaviors being tipped on, patterns of substance-related tipping, documented outcomes of tips, and the response processes used by school personnel to address substance-related tips. Specifically, we will: 1) use natural language processing and traditional statistical methods to describe the prevalence by specific substance and behavior in the tip line, and temporal and geographic patterns of tips; 2) use statistical methods to describe and compare the outcomes of substance-related tips; and, 3) collect key informant interviews and use thematic analysis to characterize the practices, policies, and procedures used by school personnel to respond to substance-related tips. This work will provide novel information on the types of substances and substance- related behaviors submitted to these systems, identify patterns of tipping that would be helpful for resource planning, and identify procedures that may be ineffective or potentially exacerbate harm (e.g., punitive suspension without connection to interventions/treatment) versus approaches that likely mitigate harm (e.g., counseling, connection to other supports), which we will use to inform the development of best practices and training materials to leverage TFRS in reducing the burden of harm for adolescent substance-related concerns.

National Park Service

Through this Task Agreement, the partners will create, fill, administer, and support an internship in support of projects and locations in the NPS National Capital Region, (NCR Partnerships and Community Engagement) program and other NPS programs that are providing assistance to a range of partners for education, field studies, and community events. This internship will provide high-quality exposure for CL interns to the kinds of professional work performed by NPS to benefit local communities, and will include coordinating with urban national park sites and education partners to provide interpretive, educational and recreational opportunities and connect communities to the public lands and national parks in their neighborhoods. Depending on circumstances, specific positions may be recruited locally or nationwide. This task will support part time (not to exceed 30 hours per week) positions to assist with the CityKids Urban Wilderness project, including planning meaningful park experiences in DC and in parks such as Grand Tetons or Yellowstone, including camping, hiking, boating, leadership and team-building skills connecting opportunities in local DC national parks with well known crown jewel national parks in the West. City Kids Urban Exploration park visits can include parks near the youth s home communities such as Anacostia Park, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Rock Creek Park, and day trips to C &amp; O Canal National Historical Park, Shenandoah National Park, and others. Visits and park focused programming will take place as a part of the afterschool program, weekend day trips, overnight trips on school holidays, spring, and summer breaks. City Kids works with youth in the out-of-school time hours and on average runs programming 3 5 days per week during the school year in DC, and daily mid-June through mid-August in Jackson, WY. Travel funds in the task agreement budget will provide travel for youth leaders to Jackson, Wyoming. Travel funds will cover airfare and transportation to/from the airport to Jackson, Wyoming for two youth leaders, (lodging and meals provided by City Kids). Travel budget also covers transportation from Rock Creek Park to Shenandoah and other national park sites within a 150 mile radius. The task also supports an intern in the NCR office of Interpretation and Education to assist with connecting local communities with the history of the search for freedom of enslaved people, providing assistance with graphic design and communication. This intern receives a higher stipend than the CityKids Urban Wilderness youth leaders. This task will also include an intern working as a Visual Information Specialist to support NCR parks with media and materials to involve youth in civil rights, urban exploration and other topics related to this project, particularly with connecting the story of current urban exploration and the search for freedom in the Underground Railroad.

NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Support Services for the Prevention and Treatment through a Comprehensive Care Continuum for HIV-affected Adolescents in Resource Constrained Settings Implementation Science Network (PATC3H-IN) (UG1/UM2) Program The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) requires support for logistical and operational coordination, website and communication management, analytic and data management, infrastructure for emerging research, regulatory, and monitoring of research activities for the Prevention and Treatment through a Comprehensive Care Continuum for HIV-affected Adolescents in Resource Constrained Settings Implementation Science Network (PATC3H-IN) (UG1/UM2) Program. The NICHD and partner NIH Institutes anticipate funding 8 PATC3H-IN UG1 awards in Asia and throughout sub-Saharan Africa in 2023 through a cooperative agreement mechanism for interventions of high public health significance: The prevention of new HIV infections among adolescents at risk, and the identification of, linkage to and retention in care of, and long-term viral suppression among youth living with HIV in low-to-middle income countries with high HIV burden. The PATC3H-IN network will expand and/or improve on successes achieved by its predecessor, PATC3H, to new geographic settings and/or risk populations and stimulate much needed implementation science (IS) research in the prevention of new HIV infections among adolescents at risk and the identification of, and linkage and retention to care of and long-term viral suppression among youth living with HIV in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs). PATC3H-IN will establish a network of investigators with multidisciplinary expertise on the youth-specific PHCC and in IS research, whose mission will be to evaluate promising prevention innovations contextually and developmentally tailored for HIV uninfected at-risk youth, and treatment and care interventions for youth living with HIV which have demonstrated efficacy and/or effectiveness in adolescent or adult populations and to translate them into public health practices. The structure of PATC3H-IN will consist of multiple interdependent functional components: (1) Five Clinical Research Centers (CRC) awarded through the UG1 grant mechanism; (2) one Implementation Science Coordinating Center (ISCC) to be awarded through a UM2 grant mechanism in 2024; and (3) a Scientific Leadership Committee (SLC). The CRCs will conduct clinical research and clinical trials, including implementation, effectiveness, and hybrid implementation-effectiveness studies at their 8-or more participating Clinical Research Performance Sites (CRPS). The ISCC will establish infrastructure to support research education and capacity building across PATC3H-IN, as well as infrastructure for stakeholder engagement in and dissemination of findings from PATC3H-IN and advanced statistical modeling support across PATC3H-IN. The ISCC will also provide infrastructure for conducting foundational research to support the work of clinical sites, including possible modeling studies and translation projects, as well as national surveys, and/or systematic collection and analysis of relevant policies and laws. Lastly, the SLC will be responsible for PATC3H-IN governance, oversight, and coordination, and will develop and implement the network research agenda, convening working groups as needed, prioritizing emerging research projects, efficiently managing the development of clinical protocols, implementing and completing clinical trials, and ensuring timely publication and communication of results.

T-Mobile Foundation

Supports youth empowerment, digital equity, and community improvement programs through social entrepreneurship grants.

TD Ameritrade Foundation

Supports financial literacy education and programs empowering youth and underserved adults.