Territory gets $400K grant funding from US Justice Department
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the US Department of Justice has announced that American Samoa is awarded more than $400,000 in grant funding for fiscal year 2008.
The bulk of the money - $350,000 - is awarded to the Department of Human and Social Services, to support and enhance local efforts aimed at stopping the consumption, sale of, and purchase of alcoholic beverages by minors.
The grant comes from the OJJDP’s Enforcing Underage Drinking Law (EUDL) Block Grant and is for a two-year project and budget period covering June 1, 2008 – May 31, 2010.
The second award of $100,000 goes to the Criminal Justice Office under the Title II Formula Grants Program, which provides funding to develop programs that address juvenile delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system.
The goal of the program is to increase the availability and types of prevention and intervention programs.
There are no specific descriptions of the projects to be funded with the two awards.
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