Day/Time:

Thursday, February 14, 2008
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Presenter:

Jack Claypoole, Ken Shapiro and Pamela Phillips, ONDCP and and Crystal Saunders and Cindy Riddick, SAMHSA DFC Staff

Description:

Each year more than 300 competitive applications for DFC funding are peer reviewed and scored by prevention professionals with community coalition experience. Beginning in FY08, individuals who complete a two-hour face-to-face training with DFC and SAMHSA staff will receive priority in becoming DFC Peer Reviewers. In this two-hour session, participants will walk through the FY08 Request for Applications and associated scoring sheets and will receive instruction on how to effectively review and score a DFC application.