The Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) National Unit was forced to close in September last year, after Department for Education (DfE) funding was withdrawn.
Charities had feared the FDACs, which serve 20 local authorities, would be left to "wither on the vine" without the unit, which supported the courts with promotion, training and research.
But the private backers have pledged more than £280,000 to fund a new national partnership, which has plans not only to support the existing areas, but to extend the FDAC model across the family justice system.
Phil Bowen, director of charity the Centre for Justice Innovation, which will direct the unit, described the outcome as a "milestone" for families across the country.
"There is no dispute about the value of the work undertaken by the FDACs since they were first established," said Bowen.
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