Support new or existing local nonprofit programs (in collaboration with law enforcement and community coalitions) in implementing best practices or promising approaches for drug prevention programs…

This $8,911,329 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (CFDA 16.838) supports the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) in implementing best practices and promising approaches for drug prevention programs targeted to youth in school and extracurricular settings.

Key project activities include: developing and executing a process for selecting and administering subawards to local nonprofit programs; developing a technological program infrastructure; providing individualized training and technical assistance to project sites; organizing convenings; gathering data and reporting on qualitative metrics; monitoring subawardee progress and financial compliance; and conducting strategic planning meetings with OJJDP.

As part of this award, IIR has provided a $41,662 subaward to Collaborative Planning Group System Inc., a women-owned small business, to assist with selection of community school project sites, develop and deliver training and technical assistance, plan the initial grantee convening, and produce training resources.

Support new or existing local nonprofit programs (in collaboration with law enforcement and community coalitions) in implementing best practices or promising approaches for drug prevention programs targeted to youth in school and extracurricular settings. Support for programs will be administered through subawards to advance comprehensive approaches to combating substance useincluding through investigations, treatment, and educationbased on identified regional and local needs. Institute for intergovernmental research project activities include, in collaboration with the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention (ojjdp): developing and executing a process for selecting and administering subawards to project sites to implement and/or expand youth drug prevention education; developing a technological program infrastructure; developing and supporting individualized training and technical assistance plans for each site; developing and executing convenings (virtual and in-person); data gathering and reporting, including qualitative metrics such as success stories and the uplifting of youth and family voices with lived experience; monitoring subawardees for project progress as well as financial compliance; and strategic planning meetings with ojjdp.