Title 25 › Chapter 26— INDIAN ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT › Subchapter III— INDIAN YOUTH PROGRAMS › § 2433
Lets tribes set up, fund, license, and run emergency shelters and half-way houses for Indian youth who abuse alcohol or drugs, including youth arrested for related offenses. Half-way houses can serve as intake or as aftercare for long-term treatment. The Indian Health Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and tribes may use their resources to staff and operate these places. If a youth is arrested or held by BIA or tribal police for an alcohol- or drug-related offense (except a "status offense" as defined by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974), cannot be returned to parents right away, and a licensed, supervised shelter or half-way house has room, the youth must be sent there instead of to a locked facility unless they are a danger to themselves or others. BIA and tribal courts are also encouraged to place convicted youth in these facilities instead of sending them to secure juvenile detention when space is available. States that have criminal jurisdiction over Indian country are urged to put arrested Indian youth into temporary emergency shelters or community treatment programs instead of jail when space exists, and to follow the required standards. The Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs must create those standards as part of the Memorandum of Agreement. Money is authorized as follows: $10,000,000 each year for fiscal years 2011 through 2015 for planning, building, renovating, buying, or leasing land or facilities; $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1993 and $7,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015 for staffing and operations. The Secretary of the Interior will allocate funds by need, may award them by contract or grant under the Indian Self-Determination Act, and tribes may buy or lease land or facilities with the funds if no federal property is available and the tribe agrees to use them for these shelters. Nothing here limits other contracts or grants under the Indian Self-Determination Act or forces tribes to lease facilities to the United States to get help.
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25 U.S.C. § 2433
Title 25 — Indians
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60