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Health and Human Services board approves one‑time opioid settlement use for residential placement
Summary
Walworth County Health and Human Services approved using opioid settlement funds to cover a residential treatment placement for a child after an adoptive placement fell through; board members emphasized the approval applied only to this case and would not establish an automatic precedent for future placements.
Walworth County Health and Human Services voted on May 21 to approve a request to use opioid settlement funds — up to $166,000 — to cover residential treatment costs for a child whose adoptive placement did not proceed, county staff said.
A staff presenter told the board the case began with the child's removal for parental opioid use and subsequent termination of parental rights. The state Department of…
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