CFDA#
93.243
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Funder Type
Federal Government
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IT Classification
B - Readily funds technology as part of an award
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Authority
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Summary
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2020 Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in Family Treatment Drug Courts [Short Title: Family Treatment Drug Courts (FTDC)]. The purpose of this program is to expand substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services in existing family treatment drug courts, which use the family treatment drug court model in order to provide alcohol and drug treatment (including recovery support services, screening, assessment, case management, and program coordination) to parents with a SUD and/or co-occurring SUD and mental disorders who have had a dependency petition filed against them or are at risk of such filing. Services must address the needs of the family as a whole and include direct service provision to children (18 and under) of individuals served by this project.
Recipients will be expected to provide a coordinated, multi-system approach designed to combine the sanctioning power of treatment drug courts with effective treatment services promoting successful family preservation and reunification. Priority funding should address gaps in the treatment continuum for court involved individuals who need treatment for a SUD and/or co-occurring SUD and mental disorders while simultaneously addressing the needs of their children.
The expectations of the grant are to provide funding for FTDCs to assist participants in reducing the rates of substance misuse, the severity of SUDs and co-occurring disorders, and decreasing out of home placements for children through family reunification and preservation. This, in turn, should also decrease the number of parents or guardians whose parental rights have been or will be terminated.
Required Activities: You must use SAMHSA's service grant funds primarily to support direct services. This includes the following activities:
- Providing outreach and other engagement strategies to increase participation in, and access to treatment services for parents and their children.
- Providing SUD and co-occurring disorders treatment (including screening, assessment, and care management) services for diverse populations at risk. Treatment must be provided in outpatient, day treatment (including outreach based services), intensive outpatient, or residential programs.
- Coordinating with the child welfare agency around case management, safety planning, reunification, and sharing information across systems.
- Collaborating with community partners to provide comprehensive services for children to meet their varied needs. Children of parents in family drug court may have been affected by prenatal and postnatal exposure to substance use and trauma that could result in deficits, delays, and concerns of a neurological, physical, social-emotional, behavioral, or cognitive nature.
- Providing strategies to strengthen parent child bonding, such as home visits and supervised visits as well as family counseling to strengthen family functioning, and assist with reunification of families when children have been in out of home placement.
- Providing wraparound”/recovery support services (e.g., child care, vocational, educational, and transportation services) designed to improve access and retention in services. [Note: Grant funds may be used to purchase such services from another provider.]
History of Funding
Approximately $10,625,000 was available in FY19 for up to 20 awards.
Additional Information
Family Treatment Drug Courts is one of SAMHSA's services grant programs. SAMHSA intends that its services programs result in the delivery of services as soon as possible after award. At the latest, award recipients are expected to provide services to the population(s) of focus by the fourth month after the grant has been awarded. Recipients should serve a minimum of 35 parents that are enrolled in the FTDC program. Recipients must also serve the children of the parents enrolled in the program. If an applicant proposes to serve fewer than 35 parents a year:
- They must provide a justification in Section B: Proposed Implementation Approach that details why they cannot meet the minimum expectation.
- They should consider applying for less than the maximum award amount of up to $425,000 per year. Applicants are encouraged to apply only for the grant amount which they can reasonably expend based on the activities proposed in their application, including the number of clients they propose to serve annually.
Service Expansion: An applicant should propose to increase access and availability of services to a larger number of clients. For example, if a FTDC program currently serves 50 persons per year and has a waiting list of 50 persons (but lacks funding to serve these persons), the applicant should propose to expand service capacity to be able to admit some or all of those persons on the waiting list or add a new location. An applicant may also propose to expand services to family members of existing family treatment drug court clients.
Grant funds should not be used for the general operation and management of FTDCs, including salaries for staff such as judges, court clerks, probation officers, and staff who are not actively involved in the therapeutic process, or referral to and entry into treatment for SUDs.