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Shasta County approves $4 million opioid prevention program focused on youth mentoring and outreach
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to fund a multi-year, community-led opioid prevention initiative that emphasizes mentoring, parent education and targeted services for at-risk youth. The contract is structured as a two‑plus‑two year program with midterm review.
The Shasta County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a multi‑year youth opioid prevention program called CORE (Stronger Together for a Substance‑Free Shasta), funding community partners with roughly $4 million over four years to build mentoring, parent education and school‑linked interventions.
The program will begin with a year‑one budget of about $1.5 million, stepping down to $1 million in years two and three and $750,000 in year four. County supervisors voted 5‑0 to authorize staff to negotiate a two‑year contract with a two‑year extension, and to require an 18‑month evaluation checkpoint before exercising the extension.
The initiative was presented to the board by a coalition of local organizations that developed a memorandum of understanding to coordinate prevention,…
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