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State's Attorney's Office seeks Maryland overdose-response grant to expand youth programs and media outreach
Summary
The state's attorney's office and local media partner CMC described a one-year Maryland overdose response (MOORE) grant application to update prevention videos, expand a trauma-informed Camp Thrive for children affected by substance use, and produce a 20-episode outreach series.
During the Feb. 27 session Carroll County's state's attorney's office presented a planned application for the Maryland overdose-response (MOORE) grant intended to expand existing school prevention programs and the county's Camp Thrive program for youth affected by household substance use.
Tim, a prevention and treatment staff member in the state's attorney's office, described current programming in Carroll County Public Schools (a seventh- and an eleventh-grade program) and said the office wants to update an educational video for schools and expand incentives to keep teachers and students engaged. He also described Camp Thrive, a donation-funded program that brings about 30 children to a trauma-informed camp to address adverse childhood experiences linked to family substance use.
"We started and piloted a program called Real Talk ... and we really wanna expand that," Tim said, describing plans to bring local voices into video content and social-media outreach.
Rich, representing Carroll Media Collective (CMC), said the grant would primarily fund contracted production personnel and described plans for roughly 20 short episodes produced in batches to create reusable, evergreen assets for targeted outreach. "The support that's available from the state MOORE grant will make this possible," he said, noting CMC's role producing materials and the project's intent to use the county's new website and social channels for distribution.
Commissioners asked whether the grant is recurring; staff said it is a one-year award and continued work beyond the grant would depend on future funding. Commissioners noted the county's frequent success in maximizing grants and highlighted interagency collaboration among the state's attorney's office, CMC, and Carroll County Public Schools.
No formal vote on grant submission is recorded in the transcript excerpted in the meeting packet; presenters asked for the board's support to submit the application and described the programmatic uses of the requested funds.
