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Clinton County awards $34,000 in opioid-settlement funds to Healthy Communities; agency reports service gains
Summary
The Clinton County Board of Commissioners approved a $34,000 opioid-settlement grant split evenly between city and county to Healthy Communities, which reported expanded services in 2024 and said it will seek additional scope-change requests via a new written-request process.
Clinton County commissioners on April 1 approved the opioid-settlement committee’s recommendation to award $34,000 to Healthy Communities, with $17,000 to come from the city and $17,000 from the county.
The award funds monthly recovery cafés, health insurance navigation for clients and related services, the county heard. Healthy Communities told the commissioners its total project cost was $168,008, with in-kind contributions of $134,008 and a federal 50% match on the insurance-navigation portion. The committee recommended increasing the agency’s original $28,000 request to $34,000 to restore funding for meals at recovery cafés, which committee members said help attendance.
Laura Archibald, a presenter for Healthy Communities, summarized the group’s 2024 work and outcomes. “We were able to bring in just over $1,400,000 of grant revenue to Clinton County last year,” Archibald said. She told the board that Healthy Communities served more than 16,000 people directly and reached roughly 30,000 countywide, and that the organization helped more than 750 insurance applications (reported as application units, which may represent families). Archibald added that the program reported a 97% self-reported success rate in removing client barriers for services.
Archibald also told commissioners that infant mortality in the county produced no preventable deaths in 2024, a second consecutive year the agency reports that outcome. She highlighted declines in several tobacco-related measures — overall tobacco use and smoking during pregnancy — and flagged enforcement and vape-disposal as continuing concerns. Archibald said two agencies have indicated they will request changes of scope or reallocation for prior grants; the committee voted at an earlier meeting to require a formal written request for any scope change or reallocation, and representatives of EMS and the Frankfort Police Department were named as likely applicants.
Commissioners moved and approved the committee recommendation; the board recorded the outcome as a 3-0 vote.
Why it matters: The county is directing restricted opioid-settlement dollars toward local recovery services and prevention, and the committee tightened procedures for later grant reallocation requests by requiring written applications. The funding restores meals at recovery cafés, which the committee said are central to attendance and program effectiveness.
What’s next: Committee members said they will notify EMS and the Frankfort Police Department about the formal request process and will accept any fall-cycle applications for scope changes or reallocations. Archibald said she has not yet received reporting guidance for 2025 from the state-level administrator and will provide required reporting as information arrives.
