Community and Schools Youth Drug Prevention Program

The purpose of this project is to support new or existing local nonprofit programs (in collaboration with law enforcement and community coalitions) in implementing best practices or promising approaches for drug prevention programs targeted to youth in school and extracurricular settings. Support for programs will be administered through subawards to advance comprehensive approaches to combating substance use—including through investigations, treatment, and education—based on identified regional and local needs. Institute for Intergovernmental Research project activities include, in collaboration with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP): developing and executing a process for selecting and administering subawards to project sites to implement and/or expand youth drug prevention education; developing a technological program infrastructure; developing and supporting individualized training and technical assistance plans for each site; developing and executing convenings (virtual and in-person); data gathering and reporting, including qualitative metrics such as success stories and the uplifting of youth and family voices with lived experience; monitoring subawardees for project progress as well as financial compliance; and strategic planning meetings with OJJDP.