II. METHODOLOGY

• No Administration for Children and Families (ACF) programs are targeted specifically on drug use and abuse, drug prevention, or drug treatment. Such activities, however, are a part of several comprehensive service programs.



• The amount counted as drug-related is determined as 100 percent for the following programs:
  1. Abandoned Infants program
  2. Community Schools program
  
  
  
• 10 percent of the funding for Community-Based Resource Centers is considered drug-related.



• Also, $26 million in Head Start.

III. PROGRAM SUMMARY

Goal 1: Educate and enable America's to reject illegal drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco.

• The ACF administers several programs that are considered drug-related. These programs target risk factors such as: school-age children and youth in areas of significant poverty; juvenile delinquency; and crime. All of these factors leave children tragically vulnerable and at high risk of alcohol and illicit drug use.

Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.

• ACF supports Federal drug control priorities through prevention, education, and training programs for families and children in crisis situations such as child abuse and neglect or abandoned infants often due to substance abusing parents.

IV. BUDGET SUMMARY

1997 Base Program

• The 1997 base program includes $44.9 million for prevention activities which support Goal 1 of the National Drug Control Strategy.



• The FY 1997 base program also contains an estimated $25.1 million for Goal 3 of the National Drug Control Strategy.

1998 Request

• The total FY 1998 drug control budget request is $54.3 million, a decrease of $15.7 million over the FY 1997 enacted level.

Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco.

• The total FY 1998 drug control request for Goal 1 activities is $44.9 million, no change from the FY 1997 enacted level.

Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.

• The drug control request for Goal 3 activities for FY 1998 is $9.4 million, a net decrease of $15.7 million from FY 1997. This is principally associated with the reduction in funding to the Community-Based Resource Centers in FY 1998.

¹This program will be folded into the Community-Based Resources Center Program.

VI. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• ACF's overall strategy has focused on at-risk populations and on assisting local and community-based programs to participate in interagency planning and coordination of service efforts to make better use of resources and bring about more comprehensive, integrated prevention efforts and service delivery systems at the local level.



• In administering these programs, ACF has helped state-and community level grantees expand and improve the quality of services by providing supplemental technical assistance and training. Targeted coordination activities, both within the Department and with other Federal agencies, help expand the capacity of Head Start grantees to address issue of underage alcohol and other substance abuse.