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Education and Prevention Grants to Reduce Sexual Abuse of Runaway, Homeless and Street Youth

Program Information

Popular name

Street Outreach Program (SOP)

Program Number

93.557

Program objective

The Service Connection for Youth on the Streets, also referred to as the Street Outreach Program (SOP) makes funding available to nonprofit agencies for the purpose of providing 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 form of trafficking in persons.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    It is anticipated that 95 grants awards will be made to include 46 new grant awards and 49 grant awards to support existing programs. The Street Outreach Program awarded a total of 96 grants.

  2. 2017

    A total of 93 grant awards were made in FY 2017, to include 14 new grant awards and 79 grant awards to support existing programs.

  3. 2018

    ACF awarded 93 grants, to include 33 new awards and 60 grant awards to support existing programs.

  4. 2019

    In FY2019, 106 grant awards were made to include 55 new grant awards and 51 non-competing continuations to support existing programs.

  5. 2020

    ACF awarded 121 grants to include 30 new grant awards and 91 non-competing continuations to support existing programs.

  6. 2022

    In FY 2022 ACF made 129 awards including 75 to existing programs. The remaining 54 awards support new programs.

  7. 2023

    In FY 2023, ACF made 133 awards including 35 to support new programs and 98 to support existing programs.

  8. 2024

    In FY 2024, ACF made 134 awards including 42 to support new programs and 92 to support existing programs.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

You may also get information on the Family and Youth Services Bureau's website at the following address https://www.acf.hhs.gov/fysb under the "About" section. Information is also available through the National Clearinghouse on Homeless Youth and Families, 4340 East-West Highway Suite 1100 Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: 833-438-7494. The National Clearinghouse on Homeless Youth and Families website is https://rhyclearinghouse.acf.hhs.gov and the email address is address is GetRHYi@NCHYF.org The RHY program regulations can be found at 45 CFR Part 1351.