§290bb–25d Centers of excellence on services for individuals with fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol-related birth defects and treatment for individuals with such conditions and their families

Summary

The Secretary must give grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to public or nonprofit private groups to set up no more than four centers of excellence. The centers will study how to prevent fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol-related birth defects, adapt clinical treatments, improve service delivery, and provide training. Work can include researching care for children and adults, finding model communities and giving them or others technical help, training community leaders, health and social service workers, law enforcement, judges, and families about spotting and referring cases, and developing ways to prevent alcohol use by women of childbearing age. Recipients must report at the end of their funding on any new prevention techniques. The Secretary must share those reports, evaluate each project, and share those evaluation results. Awards may last no more than 5 years. Congress authorized $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2001 and such sums as needed for fiscal years 2002 and 2003.