The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Executive Office of the President, is seeking applications from a non-profit entity as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code with expert knowledge and extensive experience in training drug court and other criminal justice practitioners on the application of evidence-based practices to address addiction among people involved in the criminal justice system.
Donor Name: Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/31/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to:
- educate, train, and produce materials to improve adherence to best practices,
- decrease justice costs and recidivism,
- improve access to services and service delivery, and
- reduce disproportionality of punishment in the criminal justice system. The cooperative agreement recipient shall:
- Use expert practitioners in the fields engaged in the science of addiction, criminal justice, healthcare, and drug courts.
- Provide in-person training, online training, and jurisdiction-specific technical assistance to a variety of demographically composed areas at the state, local, and tribal levels.
- Include ONDCP policy priorities in the development and execution of training and technical assistance programs and educational materials:
- Applying a comprehensive approach to addressing opioid use disorders, including overdose prevention and naloxone administration training, and programs that provide access to medication for opioid use disorder.
- Diversion programming with evidence-based and comprehensive case management, treatment for SUD, recovery and other necessary services.
- Consistency of practice among drug courts.
- Collect and analyze data from jurisdictions engaged in cooperative agreement recipient programming on alternatives to incarceration to determine the effectiveness of the trainings and on-site assistance.
Goals
The program’s goals are: (1) to provide TTA to criminal justice practitioners to develop, maintain, and enhance evidence-based interventions from arrest to reentry; (2) to educate criminal justice professionals on SUD; and (3) to develop TTA on medication for opioid use disorder treatment and overdose reversal medications to expand use in drug courts, to support recovery, and to prevent overdose deaths.
Objectives
The objectives of the program are as follows:
- To provide tools that educate and train on statewide, regional, and national levels of nocost, on-request curricula on evidence-based interventions at all points of engagement with the criminal justice system to ensure systematic implementation.
- To provide nationally, discipline specific training for drug court practitioners.
- To provide statewide, regionally, and nationally for no-cost evidence-based training for treatment providers working with drug court.
- To provide TTA to drug court practitioners on the evidence-based drug court standards for adult drug courts including training of census expansion with a focus on probation violators.
- To develop educational materials to address emerging issues that affect delivery of substance use disorders treatment, opioid treatment strategies and drug court operations.
- To conduct evaluations of trainings provided under this cooperative agreement.
Funding Information
Cooperative Agreement Amount: $6,000,000
Project Period
24 months
Eligibility Criteria
- ONDCP invites applications from non-profit organizations (including faith-based, community, and Tribal organizations), and institutions of higher learning (including Tribal institutions of higher education) with demonstrated expertise in leading state and local governments in criminal justice systems reform. Applicants must be able to secure the participation of expert practitioners.
- ONDCP welcomes joint applications from two or more eligible applicants; however, one applicant must be clearly indicated as the primary applicant (for correspondence, award, and management purposes) and the others indicated as co-applicants. The applicant should provide information that demonstrates the strength of the commitment of their partnering organizations, as set forth in Memoranda of Understanding, letters of support, statements of work, etc. All co-applicants must have demonstrated expertise in the provision of training and technical assistance on criminal justice systems reform and substance use disorders (SUD).
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