Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT)
Sponsoring Agency: CSAP
The CAPTs provide States/Jurisdictions and community-based organizations with technical assistance and training in order to apply consistently the latest research-based knowledge about effective substance abuse prevention programs, practices, and policies.
Drug Free Communities Support Program
Sponsoring Agency: ONDCP and CSAP
The Drug Free Communities Support Program is designed to reduce substance abuse among youth; enable community coalitions to strengthen collaboration; enhance intergovernmental collaboration, cooperation, and coordination; enable communities to conduct data-driven, research-based prevention planning; and provide technical assistance, guidance, and financial support to communities.
Gang Resistance, Education, and Training (G.R.E.A.T.)
Sponsoring Agency: BJA
G.R.E.A.T. is used to enhance community policing efforts by combining classroom instruction with the talents and experience of Federal, State and local law enforcement personnel who address issues relating to violent crime and street gangs. Certified/sworn, uniformed police officers and Federal agents teach the curriculum to elementary, junior high and middle school children. The design and intent of the G.R.E.A.T. Program is to decrease gang and youth violence across the nation.
Safe and Drug Free Schools
Sponsoring Agency: Department of Education
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program is the Federal government's primary vehicle for reducing drug, alcohol and tobacco use, and violence, through education and prevention activities in our nation's schools. The Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program consists of two major programs: State Grants for Drug and Violence Prevention Programs, and National Programs. State Grants is a formula grant program that provides funds to State and local education agencies, as well as Governors, for a wide range of school- and community-based education and prevention activities. National Programs carries out a variety of discretionary initiatives that respond to emerging needs. Among these are direct grants to school districts and communities with severe drug and violence problems, program evaluation, and information development and dissemination.
SAMHSA Conference Grant Program
Sponsoring Agency: SAMHSA
The purpose of the Conference Grant Program is to support domestic conferences developed for knowledge synthesis and dissemination. The goal of SAMHSA's knowledge synthesis and dissemination activities is to improve the quality of the Nation's substance abuse treatment and prevention services and systems. Conferences supported will involve coordinating, exchanging and dissemination knowledge to improve the provision of effective treatment, recovery, early intervention, and prevention services for individuals who suffer from, or are at risk for, problems related to mental illness and/or substance abuse.
The State Incentive Grant Program (SIG)
Sponsoring Agency: CSAP
SIG is targeted at reducing alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug among adolescents, age 12-17 years. Under SIG, States leverage, redirect, and coordinate prevention funding streams coming into the state, thus augmenting the traditional Block Grant funding stream. Eighty-five percent of each grant is used to implement community-oriented, evidence-based prevention practices to fill gaps in critical prevention services. The remaining 15 percent of SIG funds support development of a revitalized, comprehensive, State prevention plan, making use of all Federal and State prevention funding streams to provide coordinated and integrated prevention services across the State. This process allows States to address the needs of individual communities while enhancing the availability of and accessibility to state-of-the-art substance abuse prevention services.
Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant
Sponsoring Agency: SAMHSA
The SAPT Block Grant, the cornerstone of the States' substance-related programs, accounts for approximately 40 percent of public funds expended on substance prevention activities and treatment services. This grant program disburses funds to the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia based on a congressionally mandated formula.
Weed and Seed Program
Sponsoring Agency: Community Capacity Development Office
Operation Weed and Seed is a multi-agency strategy that "weeds out" violent crime, gang activity, drug use, and drug trafficking in targeted neighborhoods and then "seeds" the target area by restoring these neighborhoods through social and economic revitalization. The Weed and Seed strategy recognizes the importance of linking and integrating federal, state, and local law enforcement and criminal justice efforts with federal, state, and local social services, and private sector and community efforts to maximize the impact of existing programs and resources. It also recognizes the paramount importance of community involvement. Community residents must be empowered to assist in solving problems in their neighborhoods. In addition, the private sector is involved as a pivotal partner in the Weed and Seed strategy.
The Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative (YSAPI)
Sponsoring Agency: CSAP
YSAPI responds directly to the National Drug Control Strategy's first goal to "educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the underage use of alcohol and tobacco." The Initiative coordinates a number of programs, campaigns, and strategies, including: State Incentive Cooperative Agreements for Community-based Action; the Parenting is Prevention program; Public/private partnerships with national organizations; the Reality Check marijuana public education campaign; the CSAP high-risk youth program; the media/substance abuse prevention literacy project; and the Decision Support System for Prevention Science.
