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The Latest News from Our Field

We curate a digest of the latest news in our field for advocates, policymakers, community coalitions and all who work toward shaping policies and practices to effectively prevent substance use and treat addiction.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is offering Research Project Grants (R01) to support efforts to reduce stigma and fight discrimination against individuals with mental illnesses.
Grants of up to $625,000 will be awarded by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) for programs that enhance drug-court services, coordination, and addiction treatment and recovery-support services.
Grants of up to $1.5 million will be awarded by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to support adult drug courts that involve only nonviolent offenders and adhere to the 10 key components detailed by BJA and the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will award a total of $3 million in grants to support research on improving addiction-treatment outcomes.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is offering partial funding for public-health conferences in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention, education programs, and applied research.
Children with parents in the military are more likely to experience anxiety than their peers. The more time a parent has spent deployed in the past three years, the likelier their children are to struggle at school and home.
Programs have just over a month to apply for a share of $363 million in FY2010 AmeriCorps state and national grants.
Up to 27 grants will be awarded this year to expand treatment capacity in juvenile treatment drug courts, according to a new announcement from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
A new report says that states have largely squandered the funding from the 1998 nationwide tobacco settlement and have cut rather than increased funding for smoking prevention despite the billions received via the settlement.