State of Alabama's FY2011 Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Grant Program

OJJDP's State and Community Development Awards program was established to provide grants and cooperative agreements to organizations that OJJDP has selected for funds in prior years. This program has been authorized by an Act appropriating funds for the Department of Justice.

The goal of the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Program is to support and enhance State efforts, in cooperation with local jurisdictions, to enforce laws prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, or the consumption of alcoholic beverages by minors. For the purpose of the program, minors are defined as individuals under 21 years of age.

The ADECA LETS division will work with the Alabama Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Board as its subgrantee. The overall goal of the project is to impede underage access to alcoholic beverages in Alabama. The ABC Board's Enforcement Division will work to maintain and attempt to reduce the non-compliance rate for the minor compliance check program overall. The identifiable objective will be to maintain the non-compliance rate at less than 15% within the fiscal year time frame, and attempt to reduce the non-compliance rate to less than 10%. DYS will focus on six priority area of delinquency prevention regarding the needs of high risk youth in the areas of: Juvenile Justice Systems Improvement, Gender Specific Services, De-Institutionalization of Status Offenders, Mental Health, Delinquency Prevention, and School Programs. To support state and local efforts to plan, establish, operate, coordinate and evaluate projects for the development of more effective education, training, research, prevention, diversion, treatment and rehabilitation programs in the area of juvenile delinquency and programs to improve the juvenile justice system

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