About the Drug-Free Communities Grant

The Alton Youth Development Strategy Partnership, which some of you may know as the Alton Weed & Seed Strategy, Communities that Care, Youth Development Strategy, was awarded a $100,000.00 Drug Free Communities Support Grant. The Federal Award is funded through the Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Drug Free Communities Support Program Grants.  The grant is $100,000.00 per year for five years, with the possibility of renewal for an additional five years. 

The Drug Free Communities Support Program Grants (DFCSP) is an initiative to: reduce substance abuse among youth, help community coalitions strengthen collaboration, enhance intergovernmental collaboration, cooperation and coordination; enable communities to conduct data-driven, research based prevention planning, and provide communities with technical assistance, guidance and financial support.  DFCSP has two major goals:  to reduce substance use among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and to establish and strengthen collaboration among communities, private non-profit agencies and Federal, state, local and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth.