National Refugee Leadership and Lived Experience Council Program
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announces the availability of funds for the National Refugee Leadership and Lived Experience Council (NRLLEC) Program.
The NRLLEC is a new program funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) that designs, implements, evaluates, and promotes national-level councils consisting of refugees and other ORR-eligible populations who have resettled into communities throughout the United States within the last five years.
The NRLLEC Program will facilitate a National Young Adult Leadership Council comprised of members ages 18 to 24 every year for three years, as well as two additional councils with thematic focus to be determined in consultation with ORR.
The NRLLEC Program will design, implement, evaluate, and promote five councils during the three-year project period.
The program’s primary goal is to positively impact the lives of council members and their refugee and larger communities by building council members’ capacity to serve as leaders.
In addition, ORR recognizes that its engagement with these groups will enhance its ability to gather information from individual members firsthand about their lived experiences integrating into the United States.
This will help inform ORR and its recipient network about how to best meet refugee needs through enhancing or changing ORR guidance, programming, and future councils.
The NRLLEC Program will foster inclusivity, with council members attuned to the diversity, demographics, needs, and viewpoints of ORR’s eligible population (https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/programs/refugees/factsheets).
The NRLLEC Program will not seek consensus advice from council members.
The NRLLEC is a new program funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) that designs, implements, evaluates, and promotes national-level councils consisting of refugees and other ORR-eligible populations who have resettled into communities throughout the United States within the last five years.
The NRLLEC Program will facilitate a National Young Adult Leadership Council comprised of members ages 18 to 24 every year for three years, as well as two additional councils with thematic focus to be determined in consultation with ORR.
The NRLLEC Program will design, implement, evaluate, and promote five councils during the three-year project period.
The program’s primary goal is to positively impact the lives of council members and their refugee and larger communities by building council members’ capacity to serve as leaders.
In addition, ORR recognizes that its engagement with these groups will enhance its ability to gather information from individual members firsthand about their lived experiences integrating into the United States.
This will help inform ORR and its recipient network about how to best meet refugee needs through enhancing or changing ORR guidance, programming, and future councils.
The NRLLEC Program will foster inclusivity, with council members attuned to the diversity, demographics, needs, and viewpoints of ORR’s eligible population (https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/programs/refugees/factsheets).
The NRLLEC Program will not seek consensus advice from council members.
Related Programs
Refugee and Entrant Assistance_Discretionary Grants
Department of Health and Human Services
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Office: Administration for Children and Families - ORR
Estimated Funding: $1,500,000
Office: Administration for Children and Families - ORR
Estimated Funding: $1,500,000
Who's Eligible
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program: Minority-Serving Institution Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training Projects CFDA Number 84.133P-3; Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2013
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Public and private nonprofit organizations may apply.
Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity.
Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity.
Faith-based organizations may apply for this award on the same basis as any other organization, as set forth at and, subject to the protections and requirements of 45 CFR Part 87 and 42 U.S.C.
2000bb et seq., ACF will not, in the selection of recipients, discriminate against an organization on the basis of the organization's religious character, affiliation, or exercise.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-02-01/pdf/2013-02214.pdf
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
muhammad.najjar@acf.hhs.gov
Agency Email:
Date Posted:
2024-05-09
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2024-08-08
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