Grant Funds for Young Offender Reentry Program

Posted by on December 20, 2002

[RFP Bulletin]

SAMHSA Announces Availability of Grant Funds for Young Offender Reentry Program
Deadline: January 17, 2003

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (http://www.samhsa.gov/) is the federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.

SAMHSA has announced the availability of grant funds for the Young Offender Reentry Program. The program is designed to expand and/or enhance substance abuse treatment and related reentry services in agencies currently providing supervision of and services to sentenced juvenile and young adult offenders returning to the community from incarceration for criminal/juvenile offenses.

Applicants are expected to form stakeholder partnerships that will plan, develop, and provide community-based substance abuse treatment and related reentry services for the targeted populations. Public and domestic private nonprofit entities — state and local governments, Indian tribes and tribal organizations, courts, community-based organizations, and faith-based organizations — are eligible to apply.

An estimated $6 million in funding is available through this program for fiscal year 2003. It is expected that twelve to fourteen awards ranging on average from $300,000 to $500,000 in total costs (direct and indirect) will be made. (The total funds available and actual funding levels will depend on the receipt of an appropriation.)

See the SAMHSA Web site for complete program guidelines.
RFP Link: http://www.samhsa.gov/grants/content/2003/ti03001yorp.htm

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