An application for a grant under this article shall, at a minimum, contain all of the following:
(a)
The amount of the grant requested and the proposed use of the grant.
(b)
A description of the applicant and a statement of the applicant’s qualifications, including a description of the applicant’s past experience in running a YouthBuild program, if applicable, a description of the applicant’s past experience with housing rehabilitation or construction, youth and youth education, youth leadership development, and youth employment training programs, and a description of the applicant’s relationship with apprenticeship programs and with community-based organizations.
(c)
A description of the proposed construction site and evidence of site control, and a description of the proposed construction or rehabilitation activities to be undertaken and the anticipated schedule for carrying out those activities.
(d)
A description of the educational and job training activities, work opportunities, and other services that will be provided to participants.
(e)
A description of the manner in which eligible youths will be recruited and selected, including a description of the arrangements that will be made with community-based organizations, local education agencies and education agencies of Native American nations, public assistance agencies, courts of jurisdiction for status and youth offenders, shelters for homeless individuals and other agencies serving homeless youth, foster care agencies, and other appropriate public agencies and private entities.
(f)
A description of the special efforts that will be undertaken to recruit eligible young women as participants, including women with dependent children, including a description of how those women can receive appropriate support, including child care.
(g)
A description of how the proposed program will be coordinated with other federal, state, Native American nation, and local agency activities, including public school programs, the Americorps program, crime prevention programs, vocational, adult, and bilingual education programs, and other job training programs.
(h)
Substantive assurances that there will be a sufficient number of adequately trained supervisory personnel in the program who have attained the journey level or its equivalent.
(i)
A description of the applicant’s relationship with any local building trades union, including a description of the union’s involvement in training and the proposed relationship of the activities to be undertaken pursuant to the grant with established apprenticeship programs.
(j)
A description of activities that will be undertaken to develop the leadership skills of participants, including their role in decisionmaking.
(k)
A detailed budget and description of a system of fiscal controls and auditing and accountability procedures that will be used to ensure fiscal soundness.
(l)
A description of any contracts and arrangements entered into between the applicant and other entities, including all in-kind donations and grants from both public and private sources that will augment grant funds made available pursuant to this article.
(m)
Identification and description of the financing proposed for any acquisition of property, or the rehabilitation or construction of housing.
(n)
Identification and description of the entity that will operate and manage the property.
(o)
A certification that the applicant will comply with the requirements of applicable federal laws, including the Fair Housing Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and that the applicant will work to further fair housing policies.
(p)
A description of the qualifications and past experience of the person who will be the full-time director for the applicant’s project to be funded pursuant to this article.
(q)
A description of the applicant pool profile, including, but not limited to, the number of participants currently on parole or probation, the number of participants with children requiring paid supervision, and the number of participants with Department of Motor Vehicles or court-sanctioned holds on their drivers’ licenses.