CASAC Awarded $100,000 Drug Free Community Grant for 10th Year

CASAC has been awarded a Drug Free Community grant for the 10th year and will receive $100,000 in funding for 2008-2009.

Originally funded by Congress in 1997, with the understanding that local problems need local solutions, the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) program now supports over 700 drug-free community coalitions across the United States.  CASAC is rightfully proud of maintaining this status as a Drug Free Community over these past numbers of years.  As a cornerstone of ONDCP’s National Drug Control Strategy, DFC provides the funding necessary for communities to identify and respond to local substance use problems.

The stated goals for the 2008-2009 CASAC DFC Support Program are to 1) reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and by promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse; and 2) maintain and strengthen collaboration among communities, private nonprofit agencies, and federal, state, local governments in the Capital Area of the state and to support the efforts of community coalitions to prevent and reduce youth substance abuse.