OJJDP FY 18 Drug Treatment Courts Program

Eligible applicants are limited to states (including territories), units of local government, and federally recognized tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. Faith- and community-based, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations are ineligible as applicants, but OJJDP encourages them to partner with eligible applicants as a community provider of services, if applicable and appropriate. Eligible applicants who propose to provide direct services to youth under Category 1: Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts must not include youth who are older than age 18. Eligible applicants under Categories 2 and 3: Family Drug Courts Enhancement and Family Drug Courts Implementation must provide direct services to youth who are younger than age 18 and to their parents. Category 1: Juvenile Drug Treatment Court grants are available to jurisdictions with a fully operational (for at least 1 year) drug court. Category 2: Family Drug Courts Enhancement grants are available to jurisdictions with a fully operational (for at least 1 year) family drug court to enhance the operation of the court. Category 3: Family Drug Courts Implementation grants are available to jurisdictions that are ready to implement a family drug court. These are for jurisdictions where either no family drug court currently exists or a family drug court has been operational for less than 1 year. Jurisdictions may already have other types of drug or treatment courts (such as adult drug or mental health courts). An eligible applicant may designate a subunit of government (for example, county probation department, district attorney’s office, or pretrial services agency) as the authorized representative. As another example, the county executive may designate the county probation or district attorney’s office as its representative when applying for this grant. In such cases, the applicant must submit an authorization letter from the eligible agency or organization.