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Funding Available to Northfield Schools for Drug and Alcohol Prevention Programs

Rice County schools are eligible for funding through Drug Free Communities grants.

Posted Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:43 pm CT|Updated Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:57 pm CT

Through federal Drug-Free Communities grants, the Healthy Community Initiative and Rice County Chemical Health Coalition are pleased to again offer funding to support school-based projects to reduce youth drug and alcohol use—$10,000 in funding is available.

Any Rice County school district or individual school is eligible to apply.

Proposed projects must involve:

the review/use of evidence-based programs (for a database of evidenced-based programs, click HERE)
young people participating in the review of the programs

The application is designed to be short and easy to complete. For more information and to access the application forms, click HERE.

To see an overview of the grant program, click HERE.

Applications are due by 5 p.m. March 18.

Questions? Contact me at 507-664-3524 or zpruitt@carleton.edu