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Board approves committee to build application process for opioid-settlement grants
Summary
County public health staff presented an updated gap analysis of opioid-related services and the board authorized a small committee to design an application process for allocating opioid settlement funds, while asking staff to return with short-term funding options to bridge expiring contracts.
Lauren Kean, a Blackhawk County public health staff member, told the Board of Supervisors on Aug. 12 that an action-plan subcommittee updated a gap analysis of local opioid prevention, treatment and recovery services and was recommending a transparent funding process for county opioid settlement dollars. The board voted to form a four-person committee to draft that application and timeline.
Kean said the subcommittee reviewed federally and state-funded programs, local contracts and recent state actions and updated priorities first presented in March. “Some of the gap analysis would need to be revisited due to a few things that were in the works,” Kean said, citing behavioral health realignment and state funding changes that took effect July 1.
The gap analysis identified prevention, treatment and recovery priorities and recommended funding guidelines aligned with the settlement’s allowable uses. Kean told the board the subcommittee’s priorities include: expanding post-overdose response and diversion programs that…
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