Family Centered Substance Abuse Treatment Grants for Adolescents and their Families

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will make grants to programs that provide substance abuse services to adolescents and their families/primary caregivers in geographic areas with unmet need.

Up to 35 grants will be made to public and private nonprofit groups under the Family Centered Substance Abuse Treatment Grants for Adolescents and their Families program. A total of $10.575 million is available for awards.

“Grantees will implement evidence-based practices, specifically the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) coupled with Assertive Continuing Care (ACC), that are context specific focusing on the interaction between youth and their environments, family centered and community-based,” according to SAMHSA, which also is encouraging applicants to “consider the unique needs of adolescents in military families and families of returning veterans in developing their proposed project.”

Application deadline is April 23, 2010. For more details, see the grant announcement online.