OpportunityTitle: BJA FY 12 Joint Adult Drug Court Solicitation to Enhance Services, Coordination, and Treatment
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Applicants are limited to states or state courts applying on behalf of a single jurisdiction; local courts; counties; other units of local government; or federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). Indian tribal governments may apply directly or through other public or not-for-profit private entities. Eligible jurisdictions must have a fully operational (at least 1 year) adult drug court. &#147;Operational&#148; is defined as a judge being designated as a &#147;drug court&#148; judge with a drug court docket of cases and seeing defendants in drug court on a regular and recurring basis for at least 1 year prior to the submission of the grant application. By signing the SF-424, the authorized representative of the applicant organization is certifying that the Adult Drug Court(s) that receives funding from this grant is operational, as defined above, for at least 1 year at the time of application.  Note: Applicants must demonstrate that eligible drug court participants promptly enter the drug court program following a determination of their eligibility. A required initial period of incarceration will be grounds for disqualification unless the period of incarceration is mandated by statute for the offense in question. In such instances, the applicant must demonstrate the offender is receiving treatment services while incarcerated if available and begins drug court treatment services immediately upon release.
Description: BJA and SAMHSA are accepting applications for FY 2012 grants to enhance the court services, coordination, and evidence-based substance abuse treatment and recovery support services of adult drug courts. The purpose of this joint initiative is to allow applicants to submit a comprehensive strategy for enhancing drug court services and capacity, permitting applicants to compete for both criminal justice and substance abuse treatment funds with one application. In order to fulfill all of the requirements for this grant program, applicants should comply with the requirements outlined in this grant announcement as well as those incorporated by reference in the Requirements Resource Guide. These grants are authorized under 42 USC 3797u et seq. and section 509 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. This announcement addresses Healthy People 2020 Substance Abuse Topic Area HP 2020-SA. Drug courts funded through this grant solicitation may use federal funding and matched funding to serve only nonviolent offenders1 and must operate the adult drug court based on BJA&#146;s and the National Association of Drug Court Professionals&#146; publication Defining Drug Courts: The Key Components, which addresses the statutory requirements. This opportunity provides drug court applicants the flexibility to identify the most appropriate evidence-based court (service/docket) model in which to base the drug court, in order to accommodate the needs and available resources of that jurisdiction, so long as the model conforms to the 10 key drug court components, which describe the basic elements that define drug courts. (See page 5 for a definition of &#147;evidence-based.&#148;)
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Technical Application Support
GrantorContactText: For technical assistance with submitting the application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 1&#150;800&#150;518&#150;4726 or 606&#150;545&#150;5035 or via e-mail to support@grants.gov.