National Alliance For Drug Endangered Children

National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children is a non-profit organization registered in SAM.gov since June 2007 and based in Westminster, Colorado, that serves as a prime recipient of federal grant awards focused on addressing substance abuse issues affecting children and families. The organization has been a leader since its inception in 2003 in providing training, technical assistance, and resources to law enforcement agencies, professionals, and communities to develop coordinated responses to drug-endangered children. Through its federal grant portfolio, National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children delivers practical, scalable training programs and develops innovative tools designed to strengthen the safety net for at-risk children nationwide by fostering cross-sector collaboration among law enforcement, public health, treatment, and social service providers.

The organization's grant work spans multiple federal funding agencies and encompasses a diverse range of deliverables tailored to address the opioid crisis and substance abuse issues affecting vulnerable populations. Under the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program, National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children received a $463,818 Cooperative Agreement (October 2025 – September 2027) to develop training videos, in-person training scholarships, peer exchange programs, and self-assessment tools for law enforcement agencies. Through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the organization partnered with the Knik Tribe and Mat-Su Valley Drug Endangered Multidisciplinary Team to create culturally responsive interventions and overdose fatality review processes (October 2023 – September 2026). The Bureau of Justice Assistance funded the Bluebird Project (October 2023 – September 2026), a Cooperative Agreement supporting the development of advanced training curricula, virtual reality scenarios, and technical assistance packages for professionals working with drug-endangered children. National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children has also served as a sub-recipient providing technical assistance to prime grantees including Fox Valley Technical College (delivering DEC academies and training to tribal and opioid abuse program grantees), the Judiciary Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (supporting the Worcester County Drug Diversion and Drug Endangered Children Initiative), and Lackawanna County Government (developing multi-jurisdictional DEC alliances). Additionally, the organization received a sub-award from Tasc Inc. in January 2025 for technical assistance and subject matter expertise, demonstrating its role as both a primary grant implementer and technical resource for other grant-funded initiatives.