Drug-Free Communities Of Dallas County Director Jerria Martin was able to bring her group of Jr. HOPE Dealers on a tour of the Dallas County Jail with Dallas County Sherrif's Dept. Captain Mike Granthum.
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Drug-Free Communities of Dallas County
Mission Statement: A long-term intervention coalition committed to reducing and preventing substance abuse, focused primarily on Dallas County’s youth population through awareness, education, and action.
The Drug-Free Communities Support Program (DFC) is a Federal grant program that provides funding to community-based coalitions that organize to prevent youth substance use. Since the passage of the DFC Act in 1997, the DFC Program has funded more than 2,000 coalitions and currently mobilizes nearly 9,000 community volunteers across the country. The philosophy behind the DFC Program is that local drug problems require local solutions. With a small Federal investment, the DFC Program doubles the amount of funding through the DFC Program’s match requirement, to address youth substance use. Recent evaluation data indicate that where DFC dollars are invested, youth substance use is lower. Over the life of the DFC Program, youth living in DFC communities have experienced reductions in alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use. Dallas County is proud to be a DFC community.

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