OpportunityTitle: OJJDP FY 17 Family Drug Court Statewide System Reform  Implementation Program
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligibility is limited to the five award recipients&#194;&#151;Alabama Administrative Office of Courts, New York State Unified Court System, Colorado Judicial Department, Judicial Branch of Iowa, and Supreme Court of Ohio&#194;&#151;under the OJJDP FY 2014 Family Drug Court Statewide System Reform Program (SSRP) solicitation.    OJJDP welcomes applications under which two or more entities would carry out the federal award; however, only one entity may be the applicant. Any others must be proposed as subrecipients (&#194;&#147;subgrantees&quot;).  The applicant must be the entity that would have primary responsibility for carrying out the award, including administering the funding and managing the entire program. Under this solicitation, only one application by any particular applicant entity will be considered. An entity may, however, be proposed as a subrecipient (&quot;subgrantee&quot;) in more than one application.    OJJDP may elect to fund applications submitted under this FY 2017 solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on, among other considerations, the merit of the applications and the availability of appropriations.
Description: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking to implement effective family drug court practices established at the local level through family drug courts and institutionalize those practices in the larger state-level child welfare, substance abuse treatment, and court systems. The purpose of this state systems reform effort is to increase the capacity of family drug courts to serve more effectively all families in the child welfare system affected by parental substance use disorders and increase collaboration with the child welfare and substance abuse treatment systems to ensure a range of comprehensive services for families that improve child, parent, and family outcomes. This solicitation will be by invitation only to the five current Family Drug Court Statewide System Reform Implementation grantees.
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GrantorContactText: For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800&#194;&#150;518&#194;&#150;4726 or 606&#194;&#150;545&#194;&#150;5035, or via email to support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays.  &lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;An applicant that experiences unforeseen Grants.gov technical issues beyond its control that prevent it from submitting its application by the deadline must email the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Response Center (Response Center) at grants@ncjrs.gov within 24 hours after the application deadline in order to request approval to submit its application after the deadline. Additional information on reporting technical issues appears under &#194;&#147;Experiencing Unforeseen Grants.gov Technical Issues&#194;&#148; in the How To Apply section.  &lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact the Response Center by telephone at 800&#194;&#150;851&#194;&#150;3420 or TTY: 301&#194;&#150;240&#194;&#150;6310 (hearing impaired only), by email at grants@ncjrs.gov, or by web chat. Response Center hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET on the solicitation close date. Answers to frequently asked questions that may assist applicants are posted at www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2017/FAQ/FamilyDrugCourtStatewide.pdf.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;grants@ncjrs.gov&lt;br/&gt;