Drug Court Training and Technical Assistance Program

Post Date

March 31st 2016

Application Due Date

May 31st 2016

Funding Opportunity Number

BJA-2016-9211

CFDA Number(s)

16.585

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Law, Justice and Legal Services

Number of Awards

5

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)
Private Institutions of Higher Education
For-Profit Organizations (Except Small Businesses)
Other

Eligible applicants are limited to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), faith-based and community organizations, and institutions of higher learning with demonstrated expertise in assisting communities to develop, implement, and enhance drug courts. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $6700000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $1800000

Grant Description

The Drug Court Training and Technical Assistance Program is being competed under 5 categories: 1) Adult Drug Court Planning Initiative to train newly forming drug court teams, 2) Adult Drug Court Training Initiative to advertise, enhance, and deliver 22 BJA approved drug court curricula to the drug court field and develop new trainings as needed; 3) Site-specific and State-based Drug Court Technical Assistance to meet the needs of BJA adult drug court grantees to meet their grant goals and objectives as well as develop materials/content to assist the field at large, including statewide drug court coordination efforts; 4) National Drug Court Resource, Policy and Evidence-based Practice Center to maintain an online resource center, develop and market new content with a goal to increase the uptake of evidence-based practices among drug courts nationwide; and 5) Tribal Healing to Wellness Court Technical Assistance to provide assistance to tribal drug courts.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Justice

• Office:

  Office of Justice Programs

• Agency Contact:

  For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800-518-4726 or 606-545-5035, or via email to support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline hours of operation are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except federal holidays
  support@grant

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Technical Application Support

• Agency Email Address:

  support@grants.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Justice Assistance

• More Information:

  Full Announcement