Native Youth Community Adaptation and Leadership Congress Logistical Support | F18AS00057

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The Native Youth Community Adaptation and Leadership Congress Logistical Support opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F18AS00057) is a U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) discretionary funding announcement issued in partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). It is structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning the selected partner should expect active involvement and coordination with the federal agencies rather than operating entirely independently. The program sits at the intersection of education, environment, and natural resources (CFDA 15.676) and is designed to support a specific, time-bound event focused on Native youth leadership and community adaptation.

The core purpose is to identify one partner organization capable of handling key logistics and duty-of-care functions for roughly 100 participants made up of Native American students plus faculty and chaperones. The event, the Native Youth Community Adaptation and Leadership Congress (NYCALC), is scheduled to take place July 1 through July 7, 2018 at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Rather than funding general programming, curriculum development, or research, this award is aimed at making sure the congress runs safely and smoothly by placing responsibility for participant support and risk management with a capable organizer.

The funded scope emphasizes three major operational areas. First is transportation, which typically includes coordinating travel to and from the venue (often from multiple originating communities), managing arrival and departure windows, and ensuring reliable on-the-ground movement as needed during the week. Second is medical and safety coverage, which can include planning for emergency response, first-aid and clinical support arrangements, medication management protocols when appropriate, incident reporting processes, and overall safety planning consistent with hosting youth in a residential training-center setting. Third is behavior and well-being support, which generally means establishing clear participant conduct expectations, ensuring appropriate supervision, handling conflicts or disciplinary issues, providing culturally respectful youth support, and maintaining an environment where students and chaperones can participate safely and effectively. Taken together, these responsibilities point to a partner that can manage large-group youth travel and residential-event operations with strong safeguarding practices.

Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning the opportunity is open to any type of entity, subject to any additional eligibility details that may appear in the full announcement. The government anticipated a single award with an award ceiling of $1,500,000, indicating a relatively high level of resourcing for comprehensive logistics, staffing, and contingency planning. The announcement was created on December 14, 2017 with an original application deadline of January 9, 2018, reflecting a short application window typical of event-specific operational awards.

The legal authority cited for the award is the Powers and Duties of the Secretary of the Interior (16 USC 460l-1(d) and (f)), which supports Interior Department activities connected to conservation, training, and related public purposes. In practical terms, applicants would be expected to demonstrate proven capacity in large-scale event coordination, youth supervision and safeguarding, safety and medical planning, and the ability to work closely with federal partners at the NCTC site to deliver a well-managed, culturally appropriate experience for Native youth and their adult chaperones.

• The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the education, environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Native Youth Community Adaptation and Leadership Congress Logistical Support" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.676.
• This funding opportunity was created on Dec 14, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 09, 2018. (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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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