Deadline: 15-Mar-23
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 Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program Grants.
The purpose of the DFC Support Program is to establish and strengthen collaborations to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth.
Goals
The DFC Support Program has two goals:
- Establish and strengthen the collaboration among communities, public and private non-profit agencies, as well as federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth (individuals 18 years of age and younger).
- Reduce substance use among youth and, over time, reduce substance use among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increases the risk of substance use and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance use.
Funding Information
- Approximate Number of Awards 100
- Total Period of Performance Funding: $62,500,000
- Average One Year Award Amount: $125,000
- Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
- Estimated Award Date: August 30, 2023
Outcomes
- Improved knowledge regarding patterns of youth substance use.
- Improve knowledge of coalition efforts to address youth substance use in the community.
- Increase outreach to relevant sectors of the community to address youth substance use.
- Increase the capacity of local agencies and/or organizations to address youth substance use.
- Increase intergovernmental cooperation, coordination, and collaboration to change the conditions that impact youth substance use.
- Reduce factors in the community that increase the risk of substance use.
- Increase the promotion of factors that minimize the risk of substance use. Increase the ease, ability, and opportunity for youth to access settings, such as programs emphasizing self efficacy and learning skills that prevent substance use.
- Decrease the ease, ability, and opportunity for youth to access substances.
- Establish and strengthen collaboration among community stakeholders and organizations to address youth substance use.
- Reduce substance use among youth, and over time, reduce substance use among adults.
Seven Strategies for Community-Level Change
- Provide information about youth substance use: educational presentations, workshops or seminars, and data or media presentations (e.g., Public Service Announcements (PSAs), brochures, town halls, forums, web communication, social media).
- Enhance skills so youth/adults and community members can build positive social skills and enhance their decision-making capabilities: Workshops, seminars, or activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members, and staff (e.g., training and technical assistance, parenting classes, strategic planning retreats, model programs in schools).
- Provide support to increase opportunities that reduce risk factors or enhance protective factors for youth/adults: Creating opportunities for participation in activities that reduce risk or enhance protection (e.g., alternative activities, mentoring, referrals for services, support groups, youth clubs).
- Enhance access, reduce barriers, and improve connections between systems and services that help prevent youth substance use: Improving systems/processes to increase the ease, ability, and opportunity to utilize those systems and services (e.g., assuring transportation, housing, education, safety, recreational facilities, and cultural sensitivity) in prevention initiatives.
- Change consequences to incentivize positive practices and disincentivize negative practices: Increasing or decreasing the probability of a behavior (incentives/disincentives) by altering the consequences for performing that behavior (e.g., recognition programs for merchants who pass compliance checks; publicizing businesses non-compliant with local ordinances).
- Change the physical design of the community to reduce the risk for and enhance protection against youth substance use: Changing the physical design of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection (e.g., re-routing foot/car traffic, adjusting park hours, alcohol/tobacco outlet density).
- Educating and informing about modifying or changing policies that reduce access and availability to substances among youth: Change in written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules, or laws, to the extent applicable law and policies allow (e.g., workplace initiatives, law enforcement procedures, and practices, public policy actions, systems change).
Eligibility Criteria
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Eligible Applicants:
- Independent school districts
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Unrestricted
- County governments
- Special district governments
- State governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Others
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
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Additional Information on Eligibility:
- Eligible applicants are community-based coalitions addressing youth substance use that have not yet previously received a DFC grant. A DFC applicant must reside within the United States and/or the U.S. territories. The applicant can only be in receipt of one DFC grant at a time and cannot apply on behalf of multiple coalitions. Statutory Eligibility Requirements, written into the DFC Act, are inherent in the language of the DFC Support Program. Failure to meet any single statutory eligibility requirement will cause the application to be deemed ineligible; in such case, it will not move forward to merit review. The final authority lies with the DFC Administrator to determine the eligibility of an application.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
