Drug courts in nine states will receive grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to support juvenile drug courts and/or family drug courts.

A total of $9.9 million was awarded in three-year grants, including about $7.5 million granted to seven juvenile drug courts and $2.4 million for a pair of family drug courts. "We have seen time and time again how drug-treatment courts can turn around the lives of adolescents with drug or alcohol problems who are in trouble with the law," said Assistant Surgeon General Eric Broderick, DDS, MPH, SAMHSA's acting deputy administrator. "Family drug-treatment courts are equally important; they can help children grow up in families that are intact, caring and drug-free. Together, these two programs are leading the way to safer, healthier families and communities."

The juvenile drug-court grantees included the Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, Calif., which will use its $397,000 first-year grant to expand its capacity by about 50 percent; CAB Health & Recovery Services, Inc., of Massachusetts, which will dedicate its $399,643 award to expanding the juvenile drug-court programs in Salem and Lynn; the Michigan Wayne County Third Circuit STAND Program in Detroit, Mich., which received $400,000 in first-year funding; the Philadelphia Health Management Corp., which will use its $400,000 grant to develop a new, family-focused, intensive outpatient program for adolescents in the Kensington neighborhood; Phoenix Houses of New England, Inc., in Providence, R.I., which received $391,140 in the first year for drug court programs in Hampden County, Mass.; the Travis County Juvenile Court in Austin, Texas, which got $400,000 to serve 48 additional youth in its drug court program; and the Big Horn County Juvenile Drug Court in Basin, Wyo., which received $119,636 to provide treatment for juveniles with co-occurring addiction and mental-health disorders.

Family drug treatment court grantees included the Pima County Juvenile Court Center in Tucson, Ariz., which will receive $399,995 to partner with the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault to improve outcomes for clients through substance abuse treatment and family unification; and the Administrative Office of the Court in Tampa, Fla., which will receive $399,854 for the Tampa Dependency Drug Court Program, a collaborative effort between the court, an addiction-treatment program, and a university-based research institute.