1997 Minnesota Statutes

     144.401 Community prevention grants. 

    Subdivision 1.    Grants may be awarded to community 
 health boards and Indian reservations.  Within the limits of 
 funding provided by the legislature, the federal government, or 
 public or private grants, the commissioner shall award grants to 
 community health boards and the federally recognized Indian 
 reservations to plan, develop, and implement community alcohol 
 and drug use and abuse prevention programs.  To be considered 
 for a grant, a health board or Indian reservation must submit an 
 application to the commissioner of health that includes a 
 description of the planning process used, a description of 
 community needs and existing resources, a description of the 
 program activities to be implemented with grant money, and a 
 list of the agencies and organizations with whom the board or 
 Indian reservation intends to contract.  

    Subd. 2.    Local planning requirements.  To be eligible 
 for a prevention grant, a community health board or Indian 
 reservation must conduct a communitywide planning process that 
 allows full participation of all agencies, organizations, and 
 individuals interested in alcohol and drug use and abuse 
 issues.  This process must include at least an assessment of 
 community needs, an inventory of existing resources, 
 identification of prevention program activities that will be 
 implemented, and a description of how the program will work 
 collaboratively with programs in existence.  A health board may 
 comply with the planning requirements of this subdivision by 
 expanding the community needs assessment process used to develop 
 its community health plan under section 145A.10, subdivision 5. 

    Subd. 3.    Use of grant money.  Grant money may be used 
 to plan, develop, and implement communitywide primary prevention 
 programs relating to alcohol and other drug use and abuse.  
 Programs may include specific components to address related 
 health risk behaviors involving use of tobacco, poor nutrition, 
 limited exercise or physical activity, and behaviors that create 
 a risk of serious injury.  Grantees may contract with other 
 agencies and organizations to implement the program activities 
 identified in the grant application.  Special consideration for 
 contracts must be given to local agencies and organizations with 
 previous successful experience conducting alcohol and other drug 
 prevention programs.  Grant money must not be used for alcohol 
 and other drug testing, treatment, or law enforcement 
 activities.  Grant money must not be used to supplant or replace 
 funding provided from other sources.  

    Subd. 4.    Local match.  Prevention grant money 
 provided by the commissioner must not exceed 75 percent of the 
 estimated cost of the eligible prevention program activities for 
 the fiscal year for which the grant is awarded.  Local funding 
 of the remainder of the costs may be provided from the sources 
 specified in section 145A.13, subdivision 2, paragraph (a). 

    Subd. 5.    Transfer of funds.  Federal money provided 
 to the commissioner of children, families, and learning for 
 community prevention grants through the federal Drug Free 
 Schools and Communities Act is transferred to the commissioner 
 of health for prevention grants under this section. 

    HIST: 1991 c 292 art 2 s 4; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13