Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP)
Funding Amount
$6,078,027
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- One-time opportunity
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
Geographic Scope: Suburban Cook County, Illinois (all 130 suburbs outside Chicago)
Focus Areas:
- Prevent and end homelessness for youth ages 25 and younger
- Development and implementation of coordinated community plan
- Youth system navigation and coordination
- Interim and long-term housing supports
- Youth-specific access points to homeless housing and services
- Identification of youth experiencing homelessness through outreach and school partnerships
Key Accomplishments:
- Housed 111 young people in 100 days during pilot challenge
- Assessed vulnerability of 95% of youth in system
- Connected with 30 school districts
- Identified 304 unhoused youth under 18 in suburban Cook County schools during one school year
Target Population:
- Unaccompanied youth under 25
- Young adults with children
- Youth with history of foster care, incarceration, or both
- Youth experiencing homelessness due to family homelessness, parent/child conflict, running away, parental struggles
Program Components:
- Youth system navigators
- System mapping and collaboration
- Authentic youth engagement through Youth Action Board
- Collaboration with education, juvenile justice, child welfare systems
Contact:
- Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
- 4415 Harrison Street Suite 228, Hillside, IL 60162
- 708-236-3261
- info@suburbancook.org
What Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 17
- Total given
- $1.47M
- Median grant
- $66K
- Range
- $25K–$248K
- By dollars: Illinois 100%. Top recipient cities: Evanston, IL; Chicago, IL; Palatine, IL.
- 100% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 12% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
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Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Homeless
- Youth programs
- Nonprofits
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