The Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators, in partnership with the WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center and the Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families, Juvenile Rehabilitation, was awarded a $741,975 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (CFDA 16.842 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative). The grant will fund a comprehensive systems approach to identify, respond to, treat, and support children,...
The Family & Children's Service received a three-year, $692,682.87 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) to enhance community responses to the opioid crisis by serving the youngest victims of crime. The grant period runs from October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2022. As part of the Crime Victim Assistance discretionary grant program's focus on demonstration...
This $741,975 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (CFDA 16.842), aims to increase public safety in the Eastside Promise Zone by developing and implementing effective, data-driven, coordinated, and sustainable prevention and intervention strategies and evidence-based programs. The funding will be used to identify, respond to, treat, and support the needs of children born...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $748,818 Project Grant to Beginning New Outreach, Inc., a minority-owned nonprofit organization, to deliver an evidence-based substance abuse prevention program curriculum paired with positive youth development (PYD) services. The project will focus on youth ages 10-17 in Muscogee County, Georgia, providing the Narconon: Truth About Drugs prevention curriculum and PYD services in areas such as...
The Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $741,981 Project Grant under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (CFDA 16.842) to Cecil County, Maryland. The three-year grant, effective October 1, 2024, will support the county's efforts to address the impact of the opioid epidemic on children, youth, and families. Key activities include convening a youth/adult advisory group, implementing a youth voice awareness project, providing direct...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Psychiatry Substance Abuse Division received a $749,998 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (CFDA 16.842). The grant will fund a 3-year project, "Family Wellness Beyond," to (1) provide peer support services to up to 25 youth impacted by opioids and other substances per year, (2) offer case management services, and...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $741,975 Project Grant under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (CFDA 16.842) to SRI International to implement the "Supporting Kinship Care to Improve Outcomes for Opioid-Affected Youth" project. This three-year project aims to enhance engagement, behavioral, and academic outcomes for opioid-affected youth in Lincoln and Nicholas Counties, West Virginia by providing training...
The federal Project Grant award of $749,268.00 to A New Day Inc., doing business as New Day Youth and Family Services, was provided by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (CFDA 16.842) program. The funding supports the "KALEIDOSCOPE" project, which targets young people ages 16-24 experiencing homelessness, disconnection, and marginalization in Albuquerque, NM - a high-risk population for opioid and substance...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $741,975 Project Grant under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (CFDA 16.842) to Chicanos POR La Causa, Inc. (CPLC), a non-profit organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. Under this 3-year grant, CPLC will administer two evidence-based programs - Project Towards No Drugs Abuse (Project TND) and Active Parenting of Teens: Families in Action - to reach up to 250 youth and 150...
The Judiciary Courts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, through its Administrative Office of the Courts, received a $796,608 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Other Substance Use Program (CFDA 16.838). The funding will support the implementation of a Family Recovery Court (FRC) program in Madison County, Kentucky, to provide comprehensive, trauma-informed, and family-focused...