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of care services from the correctional institution (prison/jail/detention center) to the community
setting.
Stakeholders will be expected to work together to give individual clients the opportunity to
improve their lives, including recovery from substance use disorders and developing the capacity
and skills to become fully-functioning parents, employees and citizens. SAMHSA’s interest is to
actively support and shape offender reentry treatment partnerships so that clinical needs are met
and clients are treated using evidence-based practices consistent with the disease model and the
problem-solving model, rather than with the traditional criminal justice model. A long-term goal
of this program is to build sustainable systems of care for juveniles and adults needing substance
abuse treatment and recovery supports services as they return to the community from
incarceration.
This program is designed to address the needs of sentenced substance-abusing juveniles or adult
offenders returning to their families and community from adult or juvenile incarceration in
facilities including prisons, jails, or juvenile detention centers. Therefore, grantees must only
serve individuals who are incarcerated and within four months of release into the community.
This grant program is not designed to address the needs of individuals in custody or detention
settings awaiting adjudication, or sentenced to residential treatment facilities, or in school-based
programs.
Grantees should begin allowable activities in institutional correctional settings (See Section I-
2.3- Allowable Activities in Institutional Correctional Settings) and start transitional planning as
soon as possible, and provide community-based treatment services within four months of grant
award.
2.1 Populations of Focus
Applicants must propose to serve only one of two specific offender population categories:
Juvenile Offenders: Those offenders, 14 years up to 18 years old (or as defined by your State
law) under the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system who have been sentenced to
incarceration. If your State jurisdiction uses a different age range for juvenile offenders, you
must document how the age of “juveniles” is defined in your State justice system.
Adult Offenders: Those offenders, 18 years of age and older (or as defined your State law) under
the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system who have been sentenced to incarceration as adults.
If your State jurisdiction uses a different age range for adult offenders, you must document how
the age of “adults” is defined in your State justice system.
In addition, the “juvenile” or “adult” offender must meet the following criteria to receive
services funded under this grant program:
Be assessed as substance-using/abusing or diagnosed as having a substance abuse disorder;
Must have been sentenced to and serving at least one year in a correctional institution
(jail/prison/detention center;)
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