Opportunity Information: Apply for SP 18 002
The Drug Free Communities - New grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number SP 18 002) is a discretionary grant offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). It falls under the health funding activity category and is listed under CFDA 93.276. The program is rooted in the Drug-Free Communities Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-20), which established the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Program as a way to help local communities organize and sustain coordinated prevention efforts focused on substance use.
The core purpose of this funding is to support community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth, with "youth" specifically defined in this funding announcement as individuals age 18 and under. Rather than focusing on treatment or enforcement alone, the DFC model emphasizes prevention through community-driven collaboration. The idea is that lasting reductions in youth substance use happen when local partners align around shared goals, use local data to identify problems, and coordinate strategies that reduce risk factors while strengthening protective factors in the community.
The opportunity is built around two main goals. First, it aims to establish and strengthen collaboration across a broad mix of community stakeholders, including public and private nonprofit agencies and multiple levels of government (federal, state, local, and tribal). This goal reflects the coalition-based approach of the DFC program: schools, youth-serving organizations, law enforcement, local government, health providers, faith-based groups, businesses, and other community voices are typically expected to work together rather than in isolation. The emphasis is on building and maintaining a functional partnership structure that can plan, implement, and sustain prevention activities over time.
Second, the program seeks to reduce substance use among youth and, over time, reduce substance abuse among adults. The logic is that early prevention has long-term impacts, and that community-level change can shift norms, reduce availability and access, improve family and school protective environments, and address local conditions that contribute to substance use. The funding announcement highlights a risk-and-protection framework, meaning coalitions are expected to address factors that increase the likelihood of substance use (risk factors) and expand factors that help prevent it (protective factors). This can include community conditions such as perceived harm, peer norms, access to substances, enforcement of policies, family management practices, and school connectedness, depending on local needs.
From a funding standpoint, awards under this opportunity have an annual award ceiling of $125,000, and the agency anticipated making about 120 awards. The opportunity was created on January 12, 2018, with an original closing date of March 29, 2018. The funding instrument is a grant. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," with the expectation that applicants consult the additional eligibility guidance in the full announcement; in practice, DFC funding is generally oriented toward community coalitions and their eligible fiscal agents, typically involving nonprofit entities and other community-based organizational structures capable of managing federal grant funds and leading coalition-driven prevention work.
In practical terms, this grant is designed to help local coalitions coordinate people, organizations, and systems in a community to prevent youth substance use by strengthening partnerships and implementing community-wide strategies that target the local drivers of use. The funding reflects a long-running federal prevention approach that prioritizes local collaboration, community-level change, and measurable reductions in youth substance use over time.Apply for SP 18 002
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Drug Free Communities - New" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.276.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jan 12, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 29, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $125,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 120 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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