The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) FASD Center for Excellence will soon be accepting applications for funding of alcohol interventions and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) diagnosis and intervention.

Nonprofits, juvenile courts, and state governments may apply for funding. Funded programs should be designed to decrease the incidence of FASD by implementing evidence-based programs to eliminate alcohol consumption by pregnant women, or improve the functioning and quality of life of people with FASD and their families through proper diagnosis and intervention.

Addiction treatment programs are among those invited to submit proposals, along with WIC programs serving pregnant women and mental-health, child-welfare, juvenile-justice, juvenile courts, and vocational rehabilitation programs. Grants to states, courts, and nonprofits will be made in separate categories.

The RFP for these grants will be posted at the FASD Center for Excellence website in late September or early October.