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Health Department reports multiple state and federal grant losses; board approves technical rebalance

5956180 · October 9, 2025
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The county health department reported several lost grants affecting public health, behavioral health and integrated clinical services, including vaccine outreach, a BJA STOP award, and an Afghan refugee screening grant; the board approved the budget modification.

Trista Zugel, the Health Department budget director, briefed the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 16 about a fall fiscal rebalance driven by lost federal and state grant awards across Public Health, Behavioral Health and Integrated Clinical Services.

Zugel listed losses that include a second supplemental REACH vaccine grant (eliminating a train-the-trainer model for culturally specific vaccine outreach); the Department of Justice STOP grant (about $350,000) that funded violence-prevention contracts with Sun School leads; and a roughly…

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