Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Assessment, Strategic Planning ...

criminal justice systems, as appropriate, in underage drinking issues. They should ensure thatall juveniles in custody are handled in compliance with the Jail Removal Requirements of theJuvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended. Program leaders shouldensure that those taken into custody are handled in compliance with the Act.4. Communication ProgramStates should develop and implement a comprehensive EUDL communication program thatsupports priority policies and program efforts. Communication strategies should be directed atpreventing underage drinking and reducing the risk of alcohol-related injury, death, and theresulting medical, legal, social, and other costs.Communications should highlight and support specific EUDL program activities underway in thecommunity and be culturally relevant and appropriate to the audience. Where possible, theapplicant should address the type of population they intend to serve. If the target population ismultilingual or culturally diverse, priority policies and program efforts should take this intoaccount.5. Alcohol UseDue to costs and priority requirements for the work, it may not be possible to address screening,assessment, and monitoring, both through the criminal and juvenile justice systems and incooperation with medical and health care settings with grant funds. OJJDP encourages theapplicant, however, to seek partnerships that will result in this type of service for youth withunderage drinking issues.6. Program Evaluation and DataApplicants should address how they will develop evaluations, records systems to captureunderage drinking data, and information management and records systems to determine thesuccess of the planning and program efforts.Logic Model. Applicants should include a logic model that graphically illustrates how theperformance measures are related to the project’s problems, goals, objectives, and design.Sample logic models are available at ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grantees/performance.html. The logicmodel should be submitted as a separate attachment, as stipulated in “Other Attachments,”page 15.Timeline. Applicants should submit a timeline or milestone chart that indicates major tasks,assigns responsibility for each, and plots completion of each task by month or quarter for theduration of the award, using “Year 1,” “Month 1,” “Quarter 1,” etc., not calendar dates (see“Sample Project Timelines” at ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grantees/timelines.html). The timeline should besubmitted as a separate attachment, as stipulated in “Other Attachments,” page 15. On receiptof an award, the timeline may be revised based on training and technical assistance provided byOJJDP.• Capabilities/CompetenciesApplicants should describe the roles and responsibilities of project staff and explain theprogram’s organizational structure and operations. Management and staffing patterns should beclearly connected to the project design described in the previous section. This section shouldOMB No. 1121-0329Approval Expires 02/28/201313OJJDP FY 2011 EUDL Assessment, Strategic Planning, and Implementation InitiativeOJJDP-2011-2997