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Clallam County leaders map spending of opioid settlement funds after county reports drop in overdose deaths
Summary
County public health, tribal partners and behavioral health providers held a joint discussion on how to program opioid settlement money, reviewed local overdose data showing a year-over-year decline, and flagged gaps in children’s mental-health services, law-enforcement co-responder staffing and funding sustainability.
Clallam County public health officials, tribal representatives and behavioral-health partners met in a joint session to discuss how to program incoming opioid settlement funds and to review local overdose data and service gaps.
County staff outlined the allowable uses set by the One Washington memorandum of agreement (MOA) that governs settlement spending, described the county’s current and anticipated settlement payments and said most money received so far has been spent on in-county public-health and harm-reduction services. Jenny Outfield, a Clallam County health and human services staffer, said the county has obligated a fixed amount for public-health programming and that those funds currently support the county’s harm-reduction health center, staffing for naloxone distribution and outreach to connect people into treatment. “Those dollars are being used to support our harm reduction health center,” Outfield said.
Public-health epidemiologists presented overdose surveillance data compiled from Clallam County coroner records, harm-reduction contacts and EMS reports.…
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