---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 290bb–25d"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "290bb–25d"
heading: "Centers of excellence on services for individuals with fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol-related birth defects and treatment for individuals with such conditions and their families"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/290bb-25d"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III–A — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration"
  - "Part B — Centers and Programs"
  - "Subpart 2 — center for substance abuse prevention"
---

# §290bb–25d. Centers of excellence on services for individuals with fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol-related birth defects and treatment for individuals with such conditions and their families

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall make awards of grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to public or [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private entities for the purposes of establishing not more than four centers of excellence to study techniques for the prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol-related birth defects and adaptations of innovative clinical interventions and [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) delivery improvements for the provision of comprehensive [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) to individuals with fetal alcohol syndrome or alcohol-related birth defects and their families and for providing training on such conditions.
- (b) **Use of funds—** An award under [subsection (a)](#a) may be used to—
  - (1) study adaptations of innovative clinical interventions and [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) delivery improvements strategies for children and adults with fetal alcohol syndrome or alcohol-related birth defects and their families;
  - (2) identify communities which have an exemplary comprehensive system of care for such individuals so that they can provide technical assistance to other communities attempting to set up such a system of care;
  - (3) provide technical assistance to communities who do not have a comprehensive system of care for such individuals and their families;
  - (4) train community leaders, mental health and substance abuse professionals, families, law enforcement personnel, judges, health professionals, persons working in financial assistance [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), social [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) personnel, child welfare professionals, and other [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) on the implications of fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol-related birth defects, the early identification of and referral for such conditions;
  - (5) develop innovative techniques for preventing alcohol use by women in child bearing years;
  - (6) perform other functions, to the extent authorized by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) after consideration of recommendations made by the National [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
- (c) **Report—**
  - (1) **In general—** A recipient of an award under [subsection (a)](#a) shall at the end of the period of funding report to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) on any innovative techniques that have been discovered for preventing alcohol use among women of child bearing years.
  - (2) **Dissemination of findings—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall upon receiving a report under [paragraph (1)](#c-1) disseminate the findings to appropriate public and private entities.
- (d) **Duration of awards—** With respect to an award under [subsection (a)](#a), the period during which payments under such award are made to the recipient may not exceed 5 years.
- (e) **Evaluation—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall evaluate each [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) carried out under [subsection (a)](#a) and shall disseminate the findings with respect to each such evaluation to appropriate public and private entities.
- (f) **Authorization of appropriations—** For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2002 and 2003.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 519D, as added Pub. L. 106–310, div. B, title XXXI, § 3110, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1185.)