BJA and SAMHSA are accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2015 for grants to enhance court services, coordination, and evidence-based substance abuse treatment and recovery support services of adult drug courts.

The purpose of this joint initiative is to allow applicants to submit a comprehensive

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strategy for enhancing drug court services and substance abuse treatment.

Through this solicitation, applicants are competing for two grant awards (a grant from SAMHSA and a separate grant from BJA) for both criminal justice and substance abuse treatment funds with one application.

In order to fulfill all of the requirements for this grant program, applicants should comply with the requirements outlined in this announcement as well as those incorporated by reference in the Requirements Resource Guide.

These grants are authorized under 42 U.S.C.

§ 3797u, et seq., and section 509 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended.

This announcement addresses Healthy People 2020 Substance Abuse Topic Area HP 2020-SA and SAMHSA’s Strategic Initiative on Trauma and Justice.

Drug courts funded through this grant may use federal funding and matched funding to serve only nonviolent offenders1 and must operate the adult drug court based on BJA’s and the National Association of Drug Court Professionals’ publication Defining Drug Courts:
The Key Components, which addresses the statutory requirements.

This opportunity provides drug court applicants the flexibility to identify the most appropriate evidence-based court (service/docket) model on which to base the drug court, in order to accommodate the needs and available resources of that jurisdiction, so long as the model conforms to the 10 key drug court components (see pages 9-11 of this solicitation), which describe the basic elements that define drug courts.

(See page 8 for a definition of “evidence-based.”)