OJJDP FY 2011 Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Block 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. Local law enforcement officers will conduct compliance checks, probation checks, and respond to all reported underage drinking parties.

The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) is requesting financial assistance from the EUDL program to provide funding for innovative program strategies involving regional activities aimed at preventing underage drinking as well as to have a formal evaluation conducted of a program identified as a promising strategy for preventing and reducing underage drinking in a local community. Each of the strategies contains a number of activities which, when employed together, we hope will have wide-ranging, long-term impact on the reduction and prevention of underage drinking in Indiana. NCA/NCF