With this solicitation, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks to build the capacity of state courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments to establish new family treatment courts, enhance existing family treatment courts, or expand family treatment courts at the larger state and county levels.
Donor Name: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/06/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 4 Years
Details:
The goal of programs funded under the OJJDP Family Treatment Court program is to establish or enhance existing family treatment courts or implement statewide or countywide family treatment courts to more effectively address the needs of parents, children, and families affected by a substance use and/or co-occurring mental health disorder who are involved in the child welfare system as a result of child abuse and neglect or other parenting issues.
Objectives
The objective is to provide treatment to parents with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders by offering access to treatment and recovery services that will ultimately protect children; reunite families when safe to do so; and expedite permanency. Programs must include the provision of treatment and recovery services to specifically address opioid, stimulant, and other substance use disorders.
Funding Information
- Category 1: Establishing New Family Treatment Courts: $750,000
- Project Period: 48
- Category 2: Enhancing Family Treatment Court: $850,000
- Project Period: 48
- Category 3: Statewide or Countywide Family Treatment Courts Expansion: $1,500,000
- Project Period: 48
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Other units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a state
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American Tribal organizations (other than federally recognized Tribal governments)
- For Category 1: Establishing New Family Treatment Courts grants are available to jurisdictions that are ready to implement a new family treatment court. These grants are for jurisdictions where either no family treatment court currently exists or a family treatment court has been operational for less than 1 year. Jurisdictions may already have other types of drug or treatment courts (such as adult drug or mental health courts).
- For Category 2: Enhancing Family Treatment Courts grants are available to jurisdictions with a fully operational family treatment court. Courts applying for funding under Category 2 must be fully operational for at least 1 year, as funding is intended to enhance services of existing family treatment courts. OJJDP encourages applicants to partner with community providers of services, if applicable and appropriate.
- For Category 3: Statewide or Countywide Family Treatment Courts Expansion. The following entities are eligible to apply
- State Administrative Office of the Court, working in conjunction with and coordinating closely with the state’s Court Improvement Program. Applicants are required to partner with the state child welfare agency and state substance use treatment agency, and must include with the application draft or fully executed letters of intent or memorandum of understanding or agreement (MOU/MOA) formalizing these partnerships.
- Eligible county applicants are limited to the county superior court (or similar authority) or judicial districts with populations at or above 1 million. Applicants are required to partner with the county child welfare agency and county substance use treatment agency, and must include with the application draft or fully executed letters of intent or memorandum of understanding or agreement (MOU/MOA) formalizing these partnerships.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
