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Community and Family Resources asks Story County for $9,000 to keep detox beds available
Summary
Community and Family Resources (CFR) asked the Story County Board of Supervisors to authorize development of a county contract—potentially funded with opioid settlement dollars—to cover $9,000 in unfunded detox (3.7) services last year so the agency can continue medically monitored withdrawal management for residents who lack other funding.
Community and Family Resources asked the Story County Board of Supervisors on July 15 to authorize staff to draft a county contract that would let CFR draw up to $9,000 from county opioid-settlement-eligible funds to support its medically monitored intensive residential withdrawal-management program (3.7) for unfunded Story County residents.
CFR representative Michelle de la Riva told the supervisors that last year seven Story County residents used CFR’s 3.7 detox program while unfunded for a total of 20 service days and that the agency’s cost-per-unit is $450, producing a $9,000 shortfall the agency previously covered under an integrated provider network contract that has not been renewed under the state’s new ASO model.
The request, de la Riva said, is not to pay per individual but to…
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