The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks applications for funding for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/09/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000.00
Grant Duration: 48 months
Details:
Applicants must describe how their proposed project/program will integrate and sustain meaningful youth and family partnerships into their project plan and budget. Depending on the nature of an applicant’s proposed project, youth and family partnership could consist of one or more of the following:
- Individual-level partnership in case planning and direct service delivery (before, during, and after contact with youth-serving systems).
- Agency-level partnership (e.g., in policy, practice, and program development, implementation, and evaluation; staffing; advisory bodies; budget development).
- System-level partnership (e.g., in strategic planning activities, system improvement initiatives, advocacy strategies, reform efforts).
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to build the capacity of states, state and local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments to implement new and innovative approaches to enhance existing juvenile drug treatment courts and improve outcomes for youth with substance use or co-occurring mental health disorders, including histories of trauma.
Category 1: Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Planning and Implementation Program
Goals
The goal of this category is to support jurisdictions that identified a need to establish a JDTC.
Objectives
- The objective is to support courts in providing treatment and accountability to youth with substance use disorders by offering access to treatment and recovery services that will ultimately ensure public safety and productive adults.
- Funding under this category will support a 12-month planning process that will educate the JDTC team about the basic components of a JDTC and develop a program that integrates court and treatment functions. OJJDP expects the court to be operational and providing services at the conclusion of the planning process.
Category 2: Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Enhancement Program
Goals
The goal of this category is to enhance existing JDTCs by enhancing one or more of the following areas using the evidence-based Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Guidelines:
- Implement workforce development strategies to increase substance use and mental health providers, as well as peer recovery supports. This can include building the expertise of juvenile probation counselors on adolescent substance use and mental health disorders.
- Develop effective strategies to increase access to and the availability of adolescent substance use and mental health treatment.
- Enhance adolescent substance use disorder treatment services in existing JDTCs, including screening, assessment, case management, recovery support services, and program coordination to JDTC participants.
- Enhance monitoring of the court’s behavioral health progression of services from referral to treatment, treatment entry, treatment retention, and treatment completion.
- Build or enhance the jurisdiction’s data management system to intentionally collect and examine access and retention data to ensure that disparities do not exist for race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability in admission protocols or elsewhere in the JDTC program.
- Develop effective case management. Deliver effective incentives and sanctions.
- Address criminogenic needs.
- Implement or enhance evidence-based screening tools.
- Develop an innovative approach to serve court-involved youth who are not moderate to high risk to offend but have substance use challenges and can benefit from a brief intervention.
Objectives
- The objectives of this program are to improve access and availability of adolescent (and family when appropriate) substance use disorder treatment services to a larger number of clients, increase the number of individuals served, and/or propose enhancements to improve the quality of treatment services by adding workforce development strategies, evidence-based treatment approaches, or new treatment services to address unmet or emerging trends.
Funding Information
Category 1: Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Planning and Implementation Program
- Dollar Amount for Award: $750,000.00
- Performance Duration (Months): 48
Category 2: Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Enhancement Program
- Dollar Amount for Award: $1,000,000.00
- Performance Duration (Months): 48
Eligible Applicants:
- State governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
- City or township governments
Specific eligibility requirements
Specific eligibility requirements for each category can be found below.
- Category 1: Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Planning and Implementation Program
- Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Planning and Implementation Program grants are available to jurisdictions that want to establish a juvenile drug treatment court. These grants are for jurisdictions where no juvenile drug treatment court currently exists, or a juvenile drug treatment court has been operational for less than 1 year.
- Category 2: Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Enhancement Program
- Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Enhancement Program grants are available to jurisdictions with a fully operational (for at least 1 year) juvenile drug treatment court to enhance the operation of the court. Jurisdictions applying for funding under this category must have courts that have been fully operational for at least 1 year.
For the purposes of this solicitation, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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