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Board votes to recommend $25,000 opioid "gaps" report and public dashboard to county commissioners
Summary
The Board of Health voted to recommend that the county commissioners approve a $25,000 request from opioid settlement funds to produce a 10-year retrospective, community partner survey and a public interactive dashboard to guide spending and measure outcomes.
The Comm County Board of Health on Sept. 16 voted to recommend that the county commissioners approve a $25,000 request from opioid settlement funds to produce a comprehensive opioid "gaps" report and an interactive public dashboard to track uses and outcomes.
The lede: The project would produce a 10-year retrospective of overdose data, a community partner survey mapping local treatment and prevention services, cross-reference those services against the approved uses list for settlement funds, and deliver a public-facing dashboard to improve transparency and inform funding decisions.
Jenny (HHS staff) opened the item and said the county and the Behavioral Health Advisory Board had discussed using opioid settlement dollars but needed more comprehensive data to guide decisions. She turned the…
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