Addiction prevention and addiction support; application for funding

Purpose

Grants for measures and projects in the field of addiction prevention and addiction support are intended to prevent addiction risks and mitigate existing risks or impairments to health and quality of life. The existing nationwide network of prevention services is to be maintained and strengthened. In addition, the range of youth addiction counseling services in the state is to be expanded.

Object

Funding is provided for addiction prevention specialists from associations and local authorities, addiction counseling for affected young people and their relatives, care for addicted and at-risk prisoners and detainees in Bavarian prisons by external specialists, projects and measures to prevent and combat addiction, as well as further training measures that serve to impart, expand, deepen and further develop the specific specialist knowledge of volunteers and relatives working in the field of addiction.

Recipients of funding

Central associations of independent welfare organizations and their affiliated organizations as well as local authorities are eligible to apply.

Eligible costs

Funding can be provided for personnel expenses and, depending on the object of the funding, also for material expenses.

Type and amount

As part of project funding, grants are awarded in the form of fixed-amount funding (lump sums).

The sponsor must provide its own contribution as prescribed by budgetary law.

Budgetary requirements are:

• Proof of secured overall financing through third-party funds/own contribution by the executing agency
• Determination of the outstanding state interest in the implementation of the measure by the funding authority

Submission of applications

Applications must be submitted to the local government responsible for the location of the measure.

Approval

The governments are responsible for approval. The governments submit applications for initial funding to the State Ministry for Health, Care and Prevention for a decision following a technical and legal review. The approval period is the calendar year.

Applications for initial funding under the guidelines for the funding of prevention and counseling services in the field of addiction can be submitted at any time.

Applications for the continuation of existing measures and projects (follow-up applications) must be submitted to the granting authority by December 1 of the year preceding the funding period applied for. Applications received after this date will not be considered.

• where appropriate, an informal declaration by partners in the action on the nature and extent of their participation