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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
OJJDP-2008-1900
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jun 06, 2008
Creation Date:
Jun 06, 2008
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Jul 03, 2008
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Jul 03, 2008
Archive Date:
Aug 02, 2008
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Law, Justice and Legal Services
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
$530,000
Award Floor:
$0
CFDA Number(s):
16.585
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Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
Yes
Eligible Applicants
State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Applicants are limited to states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments, acting directly or through agreement with other public or private entities.
Agency Name
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
Description
The U. S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT) are collaborating to enhance the capacity of juvenile courts and juvenile drug courts to improve and increase the availability of Brief Interventions and Referrals to Treatment (BIRT) and to establish partnerships between juvenile courts and juvenile drug courts to ensure that substance abusing juvenile offenders receive effective and appropriate treatment. Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 5 sessions (MET/CBT) for adolescents is the protocol that applicants will be required to implement under BIRT.
In an era when cost containments are important acknowledgements, collaborative efforts which improve the expansion of treatment availability to the juvenile court and the juvenile drug court systems are critical. BIRT provides a resource to juvenile court and juvenile drug court systems by providing access to a relatively short, non- intensive brief intervention therapeutic model which assists in identifying the most appropriate referrals and admissions criteria for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. Following a screening to be conducted by the juvenile courts that will identify all adolescents involved in the juvenile court system who use substances of abuse the objective of this resource is to provide a brief intervention protocol (MET/CBT) to those youth for whom this intervention is an appropriate response to their severity of substance use. Those adolescents who are identified to need more intensive treatment will be referred to appropriate adolescent treatment and juvenile drug court. The primary objective of identifying substance abusing youth is long term reductions in substance abuse-related morbidity and associated problems. A secondary objective of this effort will be significant savings regarding health care and juvenile court costs.
This solicitation invites juvenile courts in collaboration with juvenile drug courts to implement BIRT and to define and identify the benefits of partnerships between juvenile courts and juvenile drug courts to ensure that substance abusing juvenile offenders receive effective and appropriate treatment.
