The Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) are accepting applications for its 2026 Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) Community-based Coalition Enhancement Grants to address Local Drug Crises Grants (CARA Local Drug Crises Grants) as an enhancement to current or formerly funded Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program recipients.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/05/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The purpose is to enhance the efforts of current or former DFC recipients to prevent substance use among youth by addressing local drug crises and emerging drug use issues. The program has 2 goals:
- Prevent or reduce use of opioids, methamphetamine, and/or prescription drug use among youth.
- Change the culture and context regarding the acceptability of youth use and misuse of these substances.
Funding Information
- Expected total program funding over the performance period: $18,750,000
- Expected total program funding per budget period: $3,750,000
- Expected funding per applicant per 12-month budget period: $75,000
Grant Period
5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
The community coalition must be a 501(c)(3) organization. Or the coalition can partner with an outside organization that is eligible to receive federal funds to serve as the fiscal agent on behalf of the coalition. Fiscal agents can include the following types of organizations:
- State governments or their bona fide agents (includes the District of Columbia).
- Territorial governments or their bona fide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
- County governments or their bona fide agents.
- City or township governments or their bona fide agents.
- Special district governments or their bona fide agents.
- Independent school districts.
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education.
- Native American tribal governments (federally-recognized)
- American Indian, or Alaska native tribally-designated organizations.
- Public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities.
- Native American tribal organizations, other than federally-recognized tribal governments.
- Nonprofits with a 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education.
- Private institutions of higher education.
- State-controlled institutions of higher education.
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses.
- Faith-based organizations.
- Small businesses.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
