Drugs

May is National Drug Court Month. OJJDP-funded drug courts help youth and families overcome the effects of substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders. In 2019, OJJDP awarded more than $19 million to drug court programs nationwide.

OJJDP recently released a new blog discussing OJJDP's support of its drug court grantees during the COVID-19 pandemic. The blog highlights how OJJDP is providing juvenile drug treatment...

Register for upcoming juvenile justice-related webinars on funding, programs, and initiatives. 

OJJDP will provide drug treatment resources at the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit on April 22-25 in Atlanta, GA. The Summit brings together stakeholders to address the opioid crisis and discuss what's working in drug abuse prevention and treatment. Available resources include the following OJJDP fiscal year 2019 funding opportunities:

• Drug Treatment Courts Training and Technical Assistance Program. All applications are due by...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism are sponsoring—and OJJDP is supporting—National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week from January 22 to 28, 2018. This weeklong observance will support community events in this country and other countries that bring together adolescents and scientists and other experts to discuss drug and alcohol abuse. The National Institute on Drug...

The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has issued a request for proposals to support the testing of the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Guidelines. AIR seeks to engage the services of third-party researchers to design and carry out research activities (i.e., design of measures, data collection, data analysis) as part of a larger strategy to evaluate the implementation of the Juvenile Drug Treatment Court...