§1535 Supplemental Grants for Coalition Mentoring Activities

Summary

The Director can give coalitions extra grants to pay for mentoring other local coalitions. To get one, a coalition must already have the basic grant from the main program for that same year. The coalition must apply to the Administrator in the form the Administrator requires. To qualify the coalition must have existed at least 5 years, show measurable results helping youth with substance use, have staff or members who will serve as mentors, have some community support where the mentoring will happen, and send a detailed mentoring plan. The grant money must be used to help start and build new, self-supporting community coalitions that focus on preventing and treating substance use, and the mentoring must follow the coalition’s plan. The Administrator can renew a grant if the coalition still meets the rules and has shown real progress in creating new coalitions. The total grant a coalition receives in a year cannot be more than the non-Federal money it raised that year, including donated goods or services. If the coalition includes a representative from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service, or a tribal government agency with substance-use expertise, some appropriated funds for that coalition may count as non-Federal. The first grant may not exceed $75,000, and renewal grants together may not exceed $75,000 in a year. The total money available for all these grants each year cannot be more than 5% of the amount authorized for the related program that year. Priority is given to coalitions proposing to mentor groups in economically disadvantaged areas.