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Agency Budget Summary
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Special Forfeiture Fund
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- All resources are 100 percent drug-related.
III. Program Summary
- Section 712 of the National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 established the Special Forfeiture Fund (SFF) to provide ONDCP supplementary resources to enhance drug control activities.
- SFF resources are derived through direct appropriations from the General Fund of the Treasury.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
- The FY 1999 program includes $216.5 million which supports Goals 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the Strategy.
Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the use of alcohol and tobacco.
- The FY 1999 program includes $205.0 million for activities which support Goal 1 of the Strategy. This consists of $185.0 million for the National Media Campaign and $20.0 million for the Drug-Free Communities Program.
- The Media Campaign is a national public education campaign to supplement existing anti-drug public service announcements developed by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and other organizations and carried by broadcast and print media. This effort encompasses a broad public education campaign that warns our youth of the hazards of using illegal drugs and emphasizes the advantages of drug-free lifestyles. This target group, America's children and adolescents, are highly susceptible to suggestion and peer pressures. It is anticipated that this group, if influenced at school, in the community, and at home, will have the necessary skills to reject drugs, alcohol and tobacco. The media campaign also reinforces (at home) the prevention messages given in schools and communities.
- The Drug-Free Communities Program supports community anti-drug coalitions throughout the United States in successfully developing and implementing comprehensive, long-term plans to prevent and treat substance abuse among youth. It is a catalyst for increased citizen participation in our efforts to reduce substance abuse among our youth and provide community anti-drug coalitions with much needed funds to carry out their important missions. Grants will be made to coalitions of representatives of youth, parents, businesses, the media, schools, youth organizations, law enforcement, religious or fraternal organizations, civic groups, health care professionals, state, local, or tribal government agencies, and other organizations. In carrying out the Program, the Director of ONDCP will: (1) make and track grants to grant recipients; (2) provide for technical assistance and training, data collection and dissemination of information on state-of-the-art practices that the Director determines to be effective in reducing substance abuse; and, (3) provide for the general administration of the Program. The requirement for participating communities to match funding will help ensure local initiatives, support, and accountability.
Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
- The FY 1999 program includes $2.0 million for activities to support the National Drug Court Institute.
Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.
- The FY 1999 program includes $5.0 million for a Chronic Users Study to research and develop national estimates of the size and composition of the chronic user population.
Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.
- The FY 1999 program includes $4.5 million to be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for anti-drug research and related matters.
2000 Request
- The total drug control FY 2000 budget request is $225.3 million which supports all five Goals of the Strategy.
Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as the use of alcohol and tobacco.
- The FY 2000 budget request includes $217.660 million for activities which support Goal 1 of the Strategy. This consists of $195.0 million for the National Media Campaign and $22.0 million for the Drug-Free Communities Program. Goal 1 also includes $0.660 million for Federal Data Related Drug Systems.
Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
- The FY 2000 budget includes $0.660 million for Federal Data Related Drug Systems which support Goal 2 of the Strategy.
Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.
- The FY 2000 budget includes $0.660 million for Federal Data Related Drug Systems which support Goal 3 of the Strategy.
Goal 4: Shield America's air, land and sea frontiers from the drug threat.
- The FY 2000 budget includes $0.660 million for Federal Data Related Drug Systems which support Goal 4 of the Strategy.
Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.
- The FY 2000 budget includes $5.660 million for activities that support Goal 5 of the Strategy.
V. Program Accomplishments
- The Drug-Free Communities Program has funded 92 grants totaling $8.7 million; instituted an evaluation process to collect data on 12 sites; and held a training and technical assistance conference for 258 representatives of the grantees in order to provide financial, evaluation and programmatic direction. Five regional centers for prevention technology have been funded to provide customized technical assistance to the grantees including assistance in using science-based prevention practices. The President has named the required 11 members to the Drug-Free Communities Advisory Commission and the Commission has met to discuss grant guidelines for soliciting new grants.
- The Media Campaign, began in January 1998 in twelve test sites, has now been extended to the entire country. It is harnessing a diverse media mix including television, video, radio, print, and Internet and other forms of new media to deliver anti-drug messages. The campaign's communication objectives are "universal" in that they are intended for virtually all adolescents and their parents or other primary care givers. The specific messages developed to realize those objectives, and the channels through which these messages are delivered are tailored to respond to regional, ethnic, and cultural, gender, and age differences among members of the target audiences. Within the media mix, messages are being delivered through the full range of media entertainment programming. The campaign has further extended its reach and opportunity to tailor messages by developing partnerships with a broad range of community and civic groups, professional associations, government agencies, and corporations. In its first year, the campaign has exceeded the goal of reaching 90 percent of the target audience with four messages a week. Presently, 95 percent of the target audience receives seven anti-drug messages a week.
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