Project Grant T2639464

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $745,579 Project Grant under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (CFDA 16.842) to Family & Children's Service (FCS), a nonprofit organization in Nashville, Tennessee. The purpose of this 3-year award is to implement the Opioid Affected Youth Program, which will provide coordinated mental health services, case management, and other supports for children and families impacted by opioid...

Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth of Indiana, Inc. was awarded $739,322 under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative program of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The three-year project grant will support the development and implementation of coordinated prevention, intervention, and family support strategies for approximately 150 youth in foster care and their kinship families impacted by opioids and other...

This Project Grant award of $896,785 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (CFDA 16.838) supports the Hancock County, Mississippi Family Treatment Court to enhance services and improve equitable outcomes for families affected by substance use disorders. The key enhancements include: Expanding peer recovery support services by adding a certified peer support specialist to provide 40 hours per week of recovery services....

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...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), is supporting the implementation and evaluation of a video-coaching intervention called THRIVE to promote positive parenting behaviors among mothers with opioid use disorder (OUD). The $193,752 award will fund a pilot study to identify facilitators and barriers to implementing THRIVE in pediatric primary care settings, engage stakeholders to...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded The Washington University a 3-year, $2,337,729 Project Grant under the Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) to study the impact of prenatal opioid exposure on placental and fetal brain development. The project, titled "The Opioid in Pregnancy: Imaging of Oxygenation, Inflammation, and Development in Brain & Placenta" (OPIOID BPP), aims to define the longitudinal effects of prenatal opioid exposure on...

The Judiciary Courts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky will receive $760,454 from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and other Substances Use Program (COSSUP) to open a new Family Treatment Court in the 28th Judicial Circuit in Kentucky. The Family Recovery Program will provide comprehensive, trauma-informed, and family-focused solutions to treat parental substance use disorder,...

This federal Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program provides $388,107 to the Unified Court System of New York State to expand the FOCUS program to include services for older siblings (ages 7-17) of children affected by parental substance use disorders. The goal is to improve child welfare, expedite permanency, and...

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...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $750,000 Project Grant under the Opioid Affected Youth Initiative (CFDA 16.842) to The Up Center, a non-profit family services agency in Norfolk, Virginia. The grant will fund a 3-year community-based Opioid Affected Youth Program that will utilize the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) to provide treatment and recovery services for up to 70 youth under 18 and their...