Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA CE21 2102
The Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program is a federal grant opportunity authorized under the Drug-Free Communities Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-20) and jointly supported through the Executive Office of the President's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). For Fiscal Year 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), specifically the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), invited applications under funding opportunity CDC-RFA-CE21-2102. The program is structured as a discretionary grant and is listed under CFDA 93.276, reflecting its focus on public health and community-based prevention.
This specific FY 2021 announcement is aimed at organizations that have never received DFC funding before. The intent is to expand the reach of the DFC program by bringing new community coalitions into the initiative and funding them to carry out the program's statutory goals. In practical terms, the DFC program is designed to help communities organize, coordinate, and strengthen local prevention efforts, rather than relying on a single agency or sector to address youth substance use alone. The emphasis is on coalition-driven work rooted in local conditions and informed by collaboration across community partners.
The program has two core goals set by statute. First, it seeks to establish and strengthen collaboration among community members and key institutions, including public and private nonprofit agencies as well as federal, state, local, and tribal governments. This collaboration is intended to support the work of local community coalitions that focus on preventing and reducing substance abuse among youth, defined here as individuals age 18 and younger. Second, the program aims to reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, reduce substance abuse among adults by addressing community-level conditions that contribute to substance use. That includes reducing risk factors within a community and increasing protective factors that help prevent initiation and escalation of substance use.
Eligibility for this opportunity is broad and includes many entity types that might lead or participate in a community coalition. Eligible applicants include state, county, city or township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; other Native American tribal organizations; and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). The listing also indicates an "unrestricted" category, meaning many entity types can be considered so long as they meet any additional eligibility clarifications provided in the full notice. Overall, the eligible applicant pool is intentionally wide to reflect the community-based coalition model, where leadership may come from government, education, nonprofits, or tribal entities depending on local structure.
In terms of funding details, the maximum award amount listed is $125,000 per award, and the program anticipated making about 100 awards under this announcement. The opportunity was posted on March 10, 2021, with an original application deadline of May 10, 2021. Applications were required to be submitted electronically by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. The awarding agency is HHS/CDC, with administration through CDC's NCIPC, aligning the funding with public health prevention strategies and injury/substance use prevention priorities.
Overall, this grant opportunity is best understood as funding for new, locally driven prevention coalitions that can bring multiple sectors together to reduce youth substance use. Rather than focusing only on individual behavior, the DFC approach centers on community conditions, coordinated prevention strategies, and long-term reduction in substance use across the lifespan by changing the local environments that shape youth risk and protection.Apply for CDC RFA CE21 2102
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.276.
- This funding opportunity was created on Mar 10, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 10, 2021 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $125,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 100 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification), Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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