Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting U.S. Attorney A. Lance
Crick of South Carolina, today announced that more than $163 million in
Department of Justice grants is available to help communities address America’s
addiction crisis.
“Our nation is facing the difficult challenge of curbing
substance addiction, which threatens public safety and is among the
Administration’s top domestic priorities,” said Katharine T. Sullivan,
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs.
“The Department of Justice is front and center in the fight to meet this
challenge. OJP is making historic amounts of grant funding available to ensure
that our communities have access to innovative and diverse solutions.”
The funding is available through OJP, the federal
government’s leading source of public safety funding and crime victim
assistance in state, local and tribal jurisdictions. OJP’s programs support a
wide array of activities and services, including programs designed to prevent
overdose deaths and break the cycle of addiction and crime.
A number of funding opportunities that address the addiction
crisis are currently open:
Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary
Grant Program
Total Available $1.75 million
Deadline 5/14/2020
Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse
Site-based Program
Total Available $27 million
Deadline 5/21/2020
Enhancing Community Responses to America's Addiction Crisis:
Serving Our Youngest Crime Victims
Total Available: $19 million
Deadline: 5/4/2020
Family Drug Court Program
Total Available $18.2
million Deadline
4/8/2020 (Extended)
Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Total Available $28.1
Deadline 5/5/2020
Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program
Total Available $7.2 million
Deadline 4/13/2020 (Extended)
Mentoring Opportunities for Youth Initiative
Total Available $48 million Deadline
4/13/2020
Opioid Affected Youth Initiative
Total Available $9 million
Deadline 4/20/2020
Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime
Total Available $1 million
Deadline 4/20/2020
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners
Total Available $4.5 million Deadline 4/6/2020
For more information regarding all OJP funding
opportunities, visit
https://www.ojp.gov/funding/explore/current-funding-opportunities.
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