§10664 Authority to Award Competitive Grants to Address Methamphetamine Use by Pregnant and Parenting Women Offenders

Summary

The Attorney General can give competitive grants to States, territories, and Indian tribes to reduce methamphetamine use by pregnant and parenting women who are involved with the criminal justice system. Grants must help public safety and health and support family stability. Money must help criminal justice, child welfare, and substance abuse systems work together to expand services for pregnant women and mothers with children who use methamphetamine. Applications must be approved and show strong collaboration with the State criminal justice and child welfare agencies. Each application must explain how the project will coordinate agencies, describe the local problem, show local governments were involved, promise the grant will add to (not replace) other funding, and describe clinical practices for screening and assessing addiction, offering family treatment when appropriate with services in the same place, and a process for agencies to work to reunite families when needed. Grants last three years and winners may apply for one more three-year cycle. Recipients must send yearly reports, and the Attorney General must report evaluation results to Congress within 12 months after the three-year cycle. Funding is authorized as needed. Definitions: child welfare agency = agency handling child or family services; criminal justice agency = agency handling arrests, courts, or corrections; Indian tribe = as defined in law.