§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 groups to set up up to four centers of excellence. These centers will study ways to prevent fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol-related birth defects, adapt and test better clinical care and service delivery, train professionals and families, help communities build strong systems of care, and develop ways to prevent alcohol use by women of childbearing age. The centers may also do other work the Secretary approves after hearing recommendations from the National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Each award can last up to 5 years. Recipients must report any new prevention techniques found at the end of their funding, and the Secretary must share those results and evaluate each project. The law authorizes $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2001 and whatever money is needed for fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Definitions used in the law: fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol-related birth defects (types of birth harm from alcohol), centers of excellence (research and service centers), and recipient (the group that gets the award).