Opportunity Information: Apply for FOA ODEP 19 02
The National Policy Development Center for Preparing Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities for Employment is a U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) grant opportunity designed to strengthen how communities, systems, and practitioners help youth and young adults with disabilities move successfully from school into employment and postsecondary education. The Center is intended to build on and extend prior ODEP youth efforts, including the earlier federally funded youth technical assistance initiative known as the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Y). Rather than starting from scratch, the award focuses on carrying forward proven approaches and expanding national capacity to improve transition outcomes, especially outcomes tied to real employment and continued education after high school.
A central purpose of the Center is to support the development, implementation, and integration of evidence-based policies and effective practices that improve transition results for youth and young adults with disabilities. The work is framed around ODEP's Guideposts for Success, which is a widely used transition framework emphasizing preparation for adulthood through a combination of school-based supports, career development, work experiences, youth development, and family involvement. The opportunity reflects the idea that raising employment expectations for youth with disabilities requires coordinated action across multiple groups, including youth themselves, families, educators, workforce professionals, and other community and disability stakeholders. In practical terms, the Center is expected to help align what schools, workforce systems, and disability service providers do so that young people encounter fewer gaps and duplicative processes as they pursue jobs, training, and college.
The Center is tasked with building capacity both within and across general youth-serving systems and disability-specific service delivery systems. That means the work is not limited to specialized disability programs; it also aims to improve how mainstream education and workforce programs serve youth with disabilities, with the broader goal of increasing employment and postsecondary education outcomes. The grant emphasizes strengthening systems-level coordination and ensuring that effective practices are not isolated pilots, but are adopted, integrated, and sustained across programs and partners.
To achieve these outcomes, the Center is required to concentrate on three major focus areas described in the project narrative. The first area is strategic partnerships and systems coordination, which centers on improving collaboration among education, workforce development, vocational rehabilitation, disability organizations, and other youth-serving entities. This typically involves aligning policies, shared goals, and operational practices so services connect smoothly and stakeholders are working from a common playbook. The second area is career pathways and work-based learning experiences, highlighting the importance of structured routes into in-demand careers and the role of paid and unpaid work experiences, internships, apprenticeships, and other employer-connected learning opportunities that build skills and improve employability. The third area is professional development, meaning the Center is expected to equip practitioners and stakeholders with training, tools, and technical assistance so they can apply evidence-based transition strategies consistently and effectively across settings.
From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity was issued as a discretionary cooperative agreement under CFDA number 17.720 by ODEP within the Department of Labor. The funding opportunity title is "National Policy Development Center for Preparing Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities for Employment" and the funding opportunity number is FOA ODEP 19 02. ODEP anticipated making a single award, with an award ceiling of $4,000,000. The announcement was created on June 20, 2019, and the original application closing date was July 23, 2019, with applications due by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with additional eligibility details provided in the full announcement text.Apply for FOA ODEP 19 02
- The Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "National Policy Development Center for Preparing Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities for Employment" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 17.720.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 20, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 23, 2019 The closing date for receipt of applications under this announcement is July 23, 2019. Applications must be received no later than 40000 p.m. Eastern Time.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $4,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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