Budgeting and Program Sustainability

Budgeting and program sustainability should be addressed by the collaborative, since tapping the full range of funding resources available to a state or community is the only way to develop multi-year stability for innovative approaches.

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  • Sustainability Planning Toolkit - Five Steps to Build a Sustainability Plan for Systems Change
    (PDF 4.5 MB)

    National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, 2021

    The Sustainability Planning Toolkit provides collaboratives, organizations, and programs with the tools needed for planning and implementing a sustainability approach for innovative projects. This resource draws on over 25 years of experience working with communities, counties, states, and tribes from across the country as well as other relevant literature in the field. The toolkit describes the key elements needed for systems change; outlines a series of steps for building a sustainability plan; and highlights selected resources and examples. Tools in this resource include a sustainability planning matrix, community mapping guide, cost analysis checklist, a sustainability assessment, and data and funding inventory templates.

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  Policy and Practice Resources

  • Sustainability Planning Toolkit - Five Steps to Build a Sustainability Plan for Systems Change
    (PDF 4.5 MB)

    National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, 2021

    The Sustainability Planning Toolkit provides collaboratives, organizations, and programs with the tools needed for planning and implementing a sustainability approach for innovative projects. This resource draws on over 25 years of experience working with communities, counties, states, and tribes from across the country as well as other relevant literature in the field. The toolkit describes the key elements needed for systems change; outlines a series of steps for building a sustainability plan; and highlights selected resources and examples. Tools in this resource include a sustainability planning matrix, community mapping guide, cost analysis checklist, a sustainability assessment, and data and funding inventory templates.

    View Document Sustainability Planning Toolkit - Five Steps to Build a Sustainability Plan for Systems Change
  • Sustainability Planning for Regional Partnerships Technical Assistance Brief
    (PDF 4.3 MB)

    National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, 2020

    This Regional Partnership Grant Technical Assistance (TA) Brief presents detailed steps that grantees can take to begin sustainability planning of their grant projects. The TA brief provides a set of questions to begin planning, mobilizing community resources, and conducting early partner engagement.

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  • White Paper on Funding Comprehensive Services for Families with Substance Use Disorders in Child Welfare and Dependency Courts
    (PDF 175 KB)

    National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, 2004

    Outlines fiscal issues that affect the ability of programs to provide the comprehensive services needed by children and families affected by substance abuse, outlines the concept of unified fiscal planning, and briefly describes the Federal sources of funding for child welfare and alcohol and drug services as well as several other sources of funds for services for children and adolescents.

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  • Family-Centered Treatment for Women
    (PDF 2.16 MB)

    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2007

    The companion Funding Family Centered-Treatment for Women (PDF - 175 KB) assists treatment providers and State substance abuse agencies to identify and access potential sources of funding for comprehensive family-centered treatment. These papers were developed in 2008. They are not current with recent developments, including the Affordable Care Act and the expansion of home visiting and early childhood programs. Updates to these papers are currently being drafted.

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  • Ensuring Sustainability for Drug Courts: An Overview of Funding Strategies
    (PDF 1.02 MB)

    National Drug Court Institute, 2008

    Assists courts in creating a sustainability plan that moves past initial implementation into long-term viability.

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• Budgeting and Program Sustainability – State Examples

  • • Minnesota Recommendations for Sustainability (PDF 298 KB)
    • Virginia Strategic Plan and Executive Summary (PDF 127 KB)
    • Texas Partnership for Family Recovery, Strategic Implementation Plan (PDF 148 KB)
    • Texas Partnership for Family Recovery, Marketing and Sustainability Plan (PDF 93 KB)