Juvenile Drug Courts & Reclaiming Futures -- Evaluation Grant Opportunity

Are you a researcher with a background or interest in juvenile drug courts? Know someone who fits the bill?
Then check out a new grant solicitation from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to evaluate juvenile drug courts implemented with the Reclaiming Futures model. These sites have also been funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
This goal of this three-year grant is "to conduct an independent evaluation of the combined effects of the two interventions to determine what system-level changes may result in increased efficiencies and cost effectiveness."
Objectives(as listed in the solicitation):

1. Assess the operations of juvenile drug courts/Reclaiming Futures model using established indices for performance, efficiencies, and cost effectiveness.
2. Improve the empirical knowledge base about juvenile drug courts and the Reclaiming Futures model.
3. Analyze the efficacy of combined efforts of juvenile drug courts and the Reclaiming Futures model.
4. Conduct case studies using administrative, collaboration, and quality indices and the sixteen (16) key elements of juvenile drug courts.
5. Evaluate the potential for replication of these models

Application deadline is August 20, 2010.

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