OJJDP FY 19 Family Drug Court Program

The Family Drug Court (FDC) Program will support three categories. Category 1: Enhancing Family Drug Courts that focus on the FDC as a mechanism to keep children at home/reducing removal/separation of children from parents and implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018; Category 2: Serving Veterans Through Family Drug Courts to assist family drug courts in efforts to provide substance-abusing veteran parents with support, treatment, and access to services that will protect children; reunite families when safe to do so; and, expedite permanency; and Category 3: Establishing New Family Drug Courts to support jurisdictions that are ready to implement a family drug court.

Eligible applicants are limited to states, territories, State courts, local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior) acting on behalf of a single jurisdiction drug court. Faith and community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and for-profit organizations), and institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education) are ineligible as applicants; however, OJJDP encourages these entities to partner with eligible applicants as a community provider of services, if applicable and appropriate. This solicitation is composed of three grant categories. Applicants must clearly designate the category for which they are applying. Category 1: Enhancing Family Drug Courts Category 2: Serving Veterans Through Family Drug Courts Category 3: Establishing New Family Drug Courts Category 1: Enhancing Family Drug Courts and Category 2: Serving Veterans Through Family Drug Courts are available to jurisdictions with a fully operational family drug court. Courts applying for funding under category 1 or 2 must be fully operational for at least 1 year, as funding is intended to enhance services of existing family drug courts. Category 3: Establishing New Family Drug Courts grants are available to jurisdictions that are ready to implement a new family drug court. These grants 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).

For technical assistance with submitting an application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or 606–545–5035, at https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support.html, or at support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. 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 to request approval to submit its application after the deadline. Additional information on reporting technical issues appears under “Experiencing Unforeseen Grants.gov Technical Issues” in the How To Apply (Grants.gov) section in the OJP Grant Application Resource Guide. For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact the Response Center by telephone at 800–851–3420 or TTY: 301–240–6310 (hearing impaired only) or by email at grants@ncjrs.gov. 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. General information on applying for OJJDP awards can be found at https://www.ojjdp.gov/funding/funding.html. Answers to frequently asked questions that may assist applicants are posted at https://www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2019/FAQ/FDCP.pdf. grants@ncjrs.gov