The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Discretionary Grant Program (Reentry) was developed through a federal partnership by the Departments of Justice, Labor, Health and Human Service, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Veterans Affairs and Agriculture. The federal partners' goal is to help state and local agencies navigate the complex field of existing state formula and block grants and to assist them in accessing, redeploying and leveraging those resources to support the components of a comprehensive reentry program. In addition to the new funding, the federal partners are identifying funds from their respective agencies that are already available to state and local agencies to provide the necessary services to implement a reentry program. The Reentry Program is designed to provide funding to state and local units of government to develop and implement institutional and community corrections-based offender reentry programs through collaborative partnerships with government, social service, faith-based, and community organizations, in order to reduce recidivism, increase public safety, and successfully reintegrate serious and violent offenders back into the community. Reentry programs are required to partner with a state adult or juvenile correctional agency.
Nevada's Department of Human Resources, Division of Child and Family Services, is in the process of developing a substance abuse recovery network with the purpose of staffing cases of youth with documented substance abuse problems and referring them to the appropriate drug treatment programs. While this resource will meet the needs of the average youth referred for services, it is believed that there is a population of females that will require a more specialized program dedicated to addressing their particular needs. This program will provide specific services to teen girls that struggle with minor mental health and substance abuse problems. Programming will be provided that will attempt to strike at the heart of the underlying causes as well as the signs and symptoms of their substance use and mental health issues.
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