Underage Drinking Grants Target Air Force

The Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will award grants of up to $500,000 under its 2009 Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Discretionary Program: Initiative to Reduce Underage Drinking.

The program “seeks to reduce the availability of alcoholic beverages to and the consumption of alcoholic beverages by persons serving in the U.S. Air Force who are younger than 21 years old,” according to the grant announcement. “The initiative will provide funds to local civilian communities to implement research-based and promising practices to enforce underage drinking laws and prevent underage service personnel from consuming alcohol in collaboration with active duty bases implementing the underage component of the Air Force's Culture of Responsible Choices program.”

Application deadline is May 21. Only state agencies that administer the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws block grant may apply; a list of eligible agencies is posted online.

For more details, see the full grant announcement.