All posts tagged "disabled youth"

At-risk youth development, education and job/career training program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Youth Development, Education, Job/Career Training, Youth Leadership, At-Risk Youth | Amount: $1,000,000 - $2,000,000 | Deadline: Mar. 2, 2025

music education, STEM and hearing impairment grants: group of black youths listening to music and learning

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Music education, STEM and hearing impairment issues grants

GRANT FOCUS: Music Education, STEM, Youth Development, Disabled Youth, Hearing Impairment | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Jan. 15, 2026

Back to school back to Unified_How your organization can champion inclusion_feature: Young adult with down syndrome smiling and giving a thumbs up while holding a basketball while another person does the same behind

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Back to school, back to Unified: How your organization can champion inclusion

Unified isn’t just about sports; it’s about creating opportunities for connection, understanding and leadership by welcoming students of all abilities.

Adaptive sports, youth with disabilities: Teen with long blonde ponytail sitting in wheelchair on indoor basketball court holds basketball up in air in right hand

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Grants for people with physical disabilities to buy adaptive sports equipment

GRANT FOCUS: Youth Sports, Adaptive Sports, Youth w/ Disabilities, Sports Access, Physical Activity | Amount: Up to $3,500 | Deadline: Nov. 14,...

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Grants to establish sports programs for youth with disabilities in public schools

GRANT FOCUS: Youth Sports, Youth w/ Disabilities, Youth Sports Access, K-12 | Amount: $25,000 | Deadline: Sep. 12, 2025

youth mentoring: older bald black man talks to young man on park bench

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Massachusetts and New York youth mentoring program support grants

GRANT FOCUS: Youth Mentoring/Mentorships, Youth w/ Disabilities, Massachusetts, New York | Amount: Deadline: Up to $50,000 | Aug. 29, 2025

Disabled remote workers: Young woman with short red hair and black frame glasses sits at desk in wheelchair with computer doing paperwork.

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Education technology and materials for students with disabilities program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Education, Students w/ Disabilities, Disabled Youth, Education Technology | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: July 25, 2025

Improving educational and behavioral outcomes for disabled children and youth program grant: disabled boy doing homework on ipad

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Improving educational and behavioral outcomes for children and youth with disabilities program grant

GRANT FOCUS: Education, Disabled Children/Youth, Academic Improvement, Child/Youth Development | Amount: Up to $4,099,988 | Deadline: July 18, 2025

Disabled student college & job transition, disability inclusion: Teen boy with Down syndrome sits working on laptop next to young Black man tutoring him

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Disability inclusion support grants

GRANT FOCUS: Youth w/ Disabilities, Disability Inclusion, Child/Youth Development, Community | Amount: $25,000 - $100,000 | Deadline: June 25, 2025

Disabled kids & medicaid cuts: Collage black and white photos young girl with dark hair in and black text in faded red blocks about medicaid

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‘She’ll fall through the cracks’: Parents of kids with disabilities brace for new reality

The potential Medicaid cuts could both unravel a child’s well-being and their family’s finances.

human trafficking victim services, therapy, school counselor: therapist/counselor comforts and speaks with young woman

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Education groups push back against feared cuts to school-based Medicaid

For decades Medicaid has paid for services in schools for low-income students.

youth grants, at-risk children healthy learning environment: youth playing outside at school in nice park area

The Carolinas at-risk children and youth development grants

GRANT FOCUS: At-risk Children/Youth, Child/Youth Health & Development, Physical Activity | Amount: $10,000 - $150,000 | Deadline: Mar. 11, 2025

A developmental disability diagnosis can hit hard_but it isn’t a knockout: illustration of toy with letters in it being taken out and forming the word "stigma"

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A developmental disability diagnosis can hit hard – but it isn’t a knockout

An evaluation for a developmental disability can feel like a double-edged sword.

Illustration in colored pencils of crowd protesting n street with large transgender pastel pink blue & white waving flag in the foregroud against city greenery & buildings

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Amid fear, trans students and families plan for Trump’s second term

Teachers wonder: What resources will I be able to use to keep kids safe?

early education for children with disabilities: two teachers help a young child with down syndrome paint

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Early education for children with disabilities professional development program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Early Education, Children/Youth with Disabilities, Workforce/Professional Development | Amount: Up to $350,000 | Deadline: Dec. 3, 2024

Transgender youth athletes find support, community in one Atlanta basketball league

Transgender athletes in sports are controversial right now.This Atlanta league is one response.

Anti-trans laws, Transgender locker room ruling: Transgender flag with white, pale blue and pale pink stripes sits behind a brown wood courtroom judge's gavel

Anti-trans laws fueled a spike in suicide attempts among trans and nonbinary youth

This is the first report to draw a connection between suicide and anti-trans laws.

Disabled parenting: Man in wheelchair with short hair in light shirt and blue jeans holds young dark-haired girl in blue shirt, red skirt and black tights sitting on the arm of hi wheelchair

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Parents with disabilities have faced discrimination for years. New rules help insure child welfare systems treat them more fairly

Yet child welfare workers don't receive formal training on working with parents with disabilities.

school police debate, school resource officers, mentor: school security guard looks out over cafeteria full of students