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Local nonprofit and commissioners discuss options for unused opioid‑settlement funds; Hand Up Ministries seeks regional and local grants
Summary
Hand Up Ministries and county officials discussed three 'pots' of opioid‑related funds (local, regional and state), clarified allowable uses and said the county had spent a small amount on Narcan, AEDs and related equipment; the nonprofit signaled plans to apply to regional funds and asked the commission for a process to evaluate local requests.
At the meeting, community representatives and county commissioners discussed how to spend opioid‑settlement monies available at local, regional and state levels and described an existing local nonprofit program that has provided addiction‑recovery services in Dade County for several years.
Joe (a community representative) described three funding streams across Georgia: local allocations the county controls; regional funds managed through Region 1 DBHDD (the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities) covering 31 counties; and state funds administered by the department in Atlanta. Joe said Hand Up Ministries is pursuing regional funds and that the organization’s grant writer had identified audit…
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