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Opportunity Summary:

The Drug Free Communities (DFC) Support Program is a federal discretionary grant program administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). It was established under the Drug Free Communities Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-20) to help communities organize and sustain local coalitions focused on preventing and reducing substance use among young people. For this funding announcement, "youth" is defined as individuals age 18 and younger, which keeps the program squarely centered on community-level strategies that influence underage substance use before it becomes more entrenched and carries into adulthood.

The program’s purpose is built around two main goals. First, it aims to establish and strengthen collaboration across a broad range of local partners, including community organizations, public and private nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments. The expectation is that a community coalition brings these sectors together so prevention work is coordinated rather than fragmented, and so the community can align policies, programming, messaging, and enforcement in a way that reinforces shared prevention objectives. Second, the program seeks to reduce substance use among youth and, over time, reduce substance abuse among adults. It approaches this by encouraging coalitions to address local conditions that elevate risk (such as community norms that tolerate underage use, easy availability of substances, or lack of protective supports) and to strengthen protective factors that reduce risk (such as positive youth development opportunities, family and school connectedness, and consistent community prevention messaging).

This specific opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number SP-15-001) offered an estimated total of $21,250,000 in funding and anticipated making about 170 awards. Individual awards had an annual ceiling of $125,000, with no stated award floor, and they required cost sharing or matching, meaning recipients would need to contribute non-federal resources as part of the project budget. The funding instrument type is a grant, and the activity category is health, consistent with a prevention-focused public health approach rather than treatment or law enforcement funding alone.

Eligible applicants are community-based coalitions that address youth substance use and meet the statutory eligibility requirements laid out in the request for applications (RFA). The announcement specifies that eligible coalitions include those that have never received a DFC grant, as well as coalitions that previously received DFC funding but had a lapse, or coalitions that completed an initial five-year DFC funding cycle and are applying for a second five-year cycle. In practice, that framing signals a pathway both for new coalitions trying to build capacity and for established coalitions seeking to sustain and deepen their work over a longer horizon, as long as they satisfy the statutory requirements described in the full RFA.

Key timing details for the opportunity include a posted date of January 16, 2015, with a closing date of March 18, 2015, and an archive date of April 17, 2015, indicating this particular announcement is no longer active but serves as a record of the program’s structure and requirements for that cycle. For access issues with the full announcement, the listed point of contact was Virginia Simmons in SAMHSA’s Division of Grants Management, with contact information provided for phone and email.

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