The Correspondence and Subject Files series is housed in 21 boxes and is arranged into two (2) subseries. Subseries have been designated for: A. Correspondence and B. Subject Files. The series consists of budgets, clippings, conference programs, correspondence, financial reports, flyers, memorandum, minutes, newsletters, publications, and reports.

The Grant series, 1987-1994, consists of 74 boxes and is arranged alphabetically by grant name or name of agency or organization that received the grant. The bulk of the collection are the grants (approved and rejected), but also included are associated materials such as agendas, brochures, correspondence, evaluations, financial reports, letters of support, memorandum, newsletters, photographs, publications, reports, and other documents.

Organizations eligible to apply for the grants included parent groups, community action agencies, community-based organizations, and other public entities and private nonprofit entities. Community service boards, police departments, mental health agencies, and educational institutions ranging from elementary and high schools to colleges and universities applied for grants. Several programs were specifically aimed at educating students such as Alcohol and Drug Abuse Awareness Week, DARE, Student Assistance Programs (SAP), Police, Public Educators, Peer Facilitators, Utilizing their leadership for students at risk (PULSAR), and Substance Abuse and Sexual Assault on Campuses (SASA). Activities funded by the grants include programs for alcohol and other drug abuse prevention, early intervention, rehabilitation and education; training programs for teachers, counselors, parents, local law enforcement officials, judicial officials, and community leaders; the development and distribution of educational and informational materials; technical assistance to help community based organizations and educational agencies in the planning and implementation of drug abuse prevention; activities to encourage the coordination of alcohol and other abuse education and prevention programs with related community efforts and resources; drug abuse education and prevention centers for providing outreach, consultation, training, and referral services to schools, organizations, and community members; and activities that promote, establish, and maintain drug-free school zones for schools.

The grants are organized by either a grouping of similar grants or by the name of the organization overseeing the grants. Larger grouping of similar grants include grants for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Awareness Week; Bill of Rights for Drug Independence; Children of Alcoholics (COA); Emergency Grants to localities; Rural Grants; Student Assistance Programs (SAP); Intensified Drug Enforcement Assistance (IDEA); Police, Public Educators, Peer Facilitators, Utilizing their leadership for students at risk (PULSAR); Community Against Drug Related Activities (CADRA); Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE); Safe Neighborhoods; Higher Education Substance Abuse and Sexual Assault on Campuses (SASA); and Commonwealth Alliance for Drug Rehabilitation and Education (CADRE).

Individual grants, arranged by the organization overseeing the grants, include programs such as: Peer Outreach Program (POP); Substance abuse prevention for childbearing youth; Chemical Abuse Prevention through Educational Services (CAPES); Positive Images lead to Positive Actions (PIPA); Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy (PAP); Helping Parents and Youth Talk; Teen Mentor programs; At Risk Student Support Groups; School Success for At-Risk Students; Safe Neighborhoods; The Word is No (TWIN); Students participating in a creative environment (SPACE); Youth Outreach; Project Insight for Youth; Project Mission (Middle School Substance Intervention); Project Transition; Court Appointed Special Advocate Program for High Risk Youth (CASA); Latchkey Child Enrichment Program; Prevention through Recreation Individual Instruction and Drug Education (PRIDE); Youth Against Drugs (YAD); New Horizons for Substance Abuse Prevention: Engaging High Risk Youth; Project Link (Perinatal addiction); Project POSSE; 80 Proof Double Standard; Project Life Line; Project DAWN (Developing a Wider and Wiser Network); and many others.

Along with a copy of the official grant many organizations also included detailed proposals with brochures, project plans, background information, future plans, resumes, letters of support, and progress reports. Of note are the Performance Reports submitted to the Office of the Governor, 1989-1993. The Performance Reports, 1989-1992, are organized numerically by some type of unidentifiable internal numbering system. The Performance Reports, 1992-1993, are organized alphabetically by organizational name. The Performance Reports forms were required by the Office of the Governor and include information on number of people served; demographic information; types of services provided; narrative of the project; and assessments of the projects effectiveness. Some Performance Reports were also interspersed within the individual grant folders.

Also included are the grant files from the previous administration when Attorney General Mary Sue Terry chaired the Governor's Council on Drug and Abuse Problems. In 1986 the combined offices of the Attorney General, the Department of Education, the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, and the Department of Social Services created the Commonwealth's first coordinated interagency effort to decrease youth alcohol and other drug abuse. The plan was named CADRE, the Commonwealth Alliance for Drug Rehabilitation and Education. Dr. John Slattery of the Department of Social Services at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) was the grants administrator. Included are copies of numerous CADRE and other High Risk Youth grants awarded during this time.