Sec. 19. Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START)
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Title III of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 ( Public Law 114–198 ; 130 Stat. 717) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, may make grants to States, units of local government, or tribal governments to establish or expand Sobriety Treatment And Recovery Team (referred to in this section as START ) programs to determine the effectiveness of pairing social workers and mentors with families that are struggling with substance abuse and child abuse or neglect in order to help provide peer support, intensive treatment, and child welfare services.
A grant awarded under this section may be used for one or more of the following activities: Training eligible staff, including social workers, social services coordinators, child welfare specialists, substance use disorder treatment professionals, and mentors. Expanding access to substance use disorder treatment services and drug testing. Enhancing data sharing with law enforcement agencies and child welfare agencies. Program evaluation. A family may be eligible to participate in a START program that receives funding under this section only if— there is a substantiated record or finding of child abuse or neglect within the family; and substance abuse was the primary reason for the record or finding described in paragraph (1).
For each of fiscal years 2018 through 2022, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is authorized to award not more than $10,000,000 of amounts otherwise appropriated for comprehensive opioid abuse reduction activities for purposes of carrying out this section. .
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