Assistance program
Opioid Affected Youth Initiative
$63.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants;Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements or Contracts);Project Grants (Including Individual Awards)
- CFDA number
- 16.842
- What it does
- Objectives include implementing programs and services that address public safety concerns, intervention, prevention, diversion, and treatment services for children, youth, and families directly impacted by opioid abuse. Sites should work in partnership with representatives from law enforcement, education, probation and community supervision, juvenile court, mental health service providers, medical physicians/examiners, prosecutors, community-based organizations that address substance abuse, child welfare agencies, child protective services, first responders, and other community health agencies. The performance measures associated with this objective are: PM 1: Number of individuals served (by population) PM 1: Percentage of eligible individuals served by a multidisciplinary team
- Who benefits
- Funded activities through this program will identify and address challenges resulting from opioid and other substance misuse that impact youth, families, and communities.
- Who applies
- Please see the eligibility language under each OJJDP program announcement funded through this program for more details. Past and current program announcements can be found at www.ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding.
- Authorized by
- 34 U.S.C. 11171-11172; Pub. L. No. 118-42, 138 Stat. 25, 150
- Program site
- http://www.ojp.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments