Active SLED Opportunity · DELAWARE · DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
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AmeriCorps State grants for 2026-2027 support local service programs addressing community needs including youth mental health, veteran support, environmental stewardship, and civic bridgebuilding, prioritizing underserved and rural communities.
AmeriCorps State grants support a broad range of local service programs that engage thousands of Americans in intensive service to meet critical community needs. Applicants should respond to at least one of the Focus Areas (as outlined in the 2025 Corporation for National and Community Service’s Notice of Funding Opportunity), which are: For this funding opportunity for 2026-2027, AmeriCorps will prioritize consideration from organizations that:Serve Communities:• Serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, tribal communities, and historically underrepresented and underserved individuals. These may include people of color, immigrants, refugees, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with arrest or conviction records, religious minorities, etc.• Implement programs for or expand access to high-quality youth mental health and substance use recovery services and prepare AmeriCorps members to enter behavioral health careers. These may include individuals with lived experience with substance use and mental health challenges to support youth mental health efforts and continued AmeriCorps work on the opioid epidemic.• Focus on improving the quality of life for veterans, active-duty members of the Armed Forces, and their families by recruiting veterans, military spouses, and their older children into national service.• Promote environmental stewardship to help communities (especially underserved households and communities) to be more resilient by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, conserving land and water, increasing renewable energy use and improving at-risk ecosystems.• Support civic bridgebuilding programs and projects to reduce polarization and community divisions; and provide training in civic bridgebuilding skills and techniques to AmeriCorps members.
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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