Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity for Juvenile Drug Courts

Post Date

March 18th 2009

Application Due Date

May 5th 2009

Funding Opportunity Number

TI-09-004

CFDA Number(s)

93.243

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Health

Number of Awards

3

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligibility is restricted to existing individual Juvenile Drug Courts that have demonstrated relationships and agreements with existing community-based substance abuse treatment providers in order to create the necessary networks to successfully implement these grants. Juvenile Drug Courts are the only eligible entities for this program because such courts are the catalysts for juveniles involved in the criminal justice system to enter a drug court program. Although public and private nonprofit organizations have a pivotal supporting role in drug court programs and may be sub-recipients/contractors to the applicant, they are not the catalysts for entry into drug court and are restricted from applying. Funding is intended to serve individual drug courts, although some States/Counties have restrictions prohibiting individual courts from applying for this type of funding. Only if there is a formal legislative, administrative, or policy restriction preventing an individual court from applying for a grant or legally administering grant or treatment funds can the State or County apply for this grant. In those cases, the State, County, or designated subunit of government (e.g., county probation department, district attorney’s office, or pretrial services agency) will be the award recipient, the entity responsible for satisfying the grant requirements and must provide the documentation of the restriction that prohibits the individual court from applying in Appendix 7 of the application. Designated subunits of government must also submit an authorization letter from the State or County in Appendix 7 of the application. Under this program, grantees will receive two separate awards; OJJDP will fund the juvenile drug court component and CSAT will fund the substance abuse treatment component. Please note that OJJDP will make a one-time award, up to $425,000, per grantee for the entire four year grant period, while CSAT will make annual awards, up to $200,000, per grantee for each year of the four year grant period. A match is required for the OJJDP award. Therefore, grantees must have a system in place to track substance abuse treatment and juvenile drug court grant fund expenditures separately.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $1875000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $625000

Grant Description

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), and the U. S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ), is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2009 Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity for Juvenile Drug Courts. The purpose of this program is to enhance the capacity of existing juvenile drug courts to serve substance-abusing juvenile offenders through the integration and implementation of the Juvenile Drug Court: Strategies in Practice, and the Reclaiming Futures program models. The juvenile drug court is a special court docket approach that builds community partnerships and enhances the capacity of the partners to assist in rehabilitating nonviolent substance-abusing youth through an innovative, integrated approach that reflects the community’s norms, values, resources, and needs. (For more information on the key elements of a juvenile drug court, see Appendix I.) The Juvenile Drug Courts: Strategies in Practice model has been used to implement and operate Juvenile Drug Courts. The RWJ Reclaiming Futures model has been effective in combining community system reforms, substance abuse treatment improvement and community engagement to help youth break the cycle of drugs and crime. SAMHSA/CSAT funds will be used to fund the screening, assessment, and treatment components of the Reclaiming Futures model. (For more information on The Six Stages of the Reclaiming Futures model, see Appendix J.) The integration and implementation of the Juvenile Drug Courts: Strategies in Practice, and Reclaiming Futures program models will enhance the capacity of communities to provide intervention, treatment, and structure to young people whose lives have begun a downward spiral of substance abuse and delinquent activity. Under this program, grantees will receive two separate awards: OJJDP will fund the juvenile drug court component and CSAT will fund the substance abuse treatment component. Please note that OJJDP will make a one-time award, up to $425,000 (match is required), per grantee for the entire four year grant period, while CSAT will make annual awards, up to $200,000, per grantee for each year of the four year grant period. Therefore, grantees must have a system in place to track substance abuse treatment and juvenile drug court grant fund expenditures separately. Grantees will also be required to submit separate documentation to OJJDP for their Grants Management System and adhere to their statutory requirements for juvenile drug courts. For more information on OJJDP’s statutory requirements for juvenile drug courts, go to http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/funding/FundingDetail.asp?fi=118. Juvenile Drug Courts is one of SAMHSA’s services grant programs. SAMHSA’s services grants are designed to address gaps in substance abuse treatment services and/or to increase the ability of States, units of local government, American Indian/Alaska Native Tribes and tribal organizations, and community- and faith-based organizations to help specific populations or geographic areas with serious, emerging substance abuse problems. SAMHSA intends that its services grants result in the delivery of services as soon as possible after award. Service delivery should begin by the 4th month of the project at the latest. Juvenile Drug Court grants are authorized under Sections 501 (d)(18) and 509 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, and 42 U.S.C. Section 3797a. This announcement addresses Healthy People 2010 focus area 26 (Substance Abuse).

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin

• Agency Contact:

  Kathleen Sample
  Office of Program Services, Division of Grants Management
  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  1 Choke Cherry Road
  Room 7-1089
  Rockville, Maryland 20857
  (240) 276-1407

• Agency Mailing Address:

  kathleen.sample@samhsa.hhs.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  kathleen.sample@samhsa.hhs.gov

• More Information:

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