United States: 2021 Family Drug Court Program

Deadline: 22-Jun-21

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking applications for funding under the fiscal year (FY) 2021 Family Drug Court Program with the mission of supporting states and communities as they develop and implement effective and coordinated substance use intervention programs.

Goal

The goal of programs funded under the OJJDP Family Drug Court Program is to establish new family drug courts, enhance existing family drug courts, provide services to veterans in family drug courts, or implement statewide or countywide family drug court practices to more effectively intervene with 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.

Objective

The objective is to provide treatment and accountability to parents with substance use 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 substance abuse reduction.

Categories

Category 1: Establishing New Family Drug Courts and Category 2: Enhancing Family Drug Courts. Programs funded under Category 1 are expected to implement new family drug courts to provide parental substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services, including screening, assessment, case management, recovery support services, and program coordination to family drug court participants. Programs funded under Category 2 are expected to expand parental SUD treatment services to their participants, as mentioned above, in existing family drug courts.
Category 3: Serving Veterans Through Family Drug Courts. Programs funded under Category 3 have a narrower focus—to provide treatment and accountability to veteran parents with substance use disorders by offering access to recovery services. Applicants are expected to enhance existing family drug court practice to identify, assess, and refer veterans and veteran family members entering the family drug court, or when initially referred to child welfare, to family-centered treatment and recovery support services that reflect military competence. Successful applicants will coordinate services for the veteran and veteran family members from partner agencies, including trauma-informed care specific to veteran populations. Funding under this category is restricted to veteran or military service members; therefore, proposals must clearly detail how funds will solely serve this target population.
Category 4: State and County Family Drug Courts Expansion. OJJDP will support states and counties to enhance and/or expand family drug court treatment and recovery practices at the larger state and county levels to more effectively serve families affected by opioid, stimulant, and other substance use disorders. States and counties will increase access to and/or availability of SUD treatment and recovery services across their state or county and develop and implement practices and policies that strengthen existing family drug courts, child welfare, SUD treatment service systems, and community-based organizations that serve and support children and families. This will be achieved through strengthened cross-systems collaboration; expansion of family drug court practices into the larger state or county child welfare, SUD treatment, and court systems; and increasing the scale and scope of services provided by family drug courts across the state or county.

Funding Information

Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $15,200,000.00
Establishing New Family Drug Courts: $700,000.00
Enhancing Family Drug Courts: $800,000.00
Serving Veterans Through Family Drug Courts: $500,000.00
State & County Family Drug Courts Expansion: $1,500,000.00
Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/21 12:00 AM
Period of Performance Duration (Months): 36

Eligibility Criteria

City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), State governments, Other.
The following entities are eligible to apply:
- State governments
- City or township governments
- County governments
- State and local courts
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized) acting on behalf of a single jurisdiction drug court.
- Other
For 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.
To advance Executive Order Safe Policing for Safe Communities, the Attorney General determined that all state, local, and university or college law enforcement agencies must be certified by an approved independent credentialing body or have started the certification process to be allocated FY 2021 DOJ discretionary grant funding, as either a recipient or a subrecipient.