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Northwest Hills COG tests pooled fund to streamline health, recovery services
Summary
Staff proposed using the region's RORF (opioid settlement fund) platform as a pooled funding and coordination hub for mental health, substance-use, homelessness and other health-and-wellness services; members asked for more data and town-level detail before committing.
Leo (Regional health and human services staff) told the Northwest Hills Council of Governments on a special meeting that staff are exploring a regional pooled fund to reduce repeated funding requests from nonprofit service providers and to encourage shared services among towns.
"We have a lot of organizations in the region," Leo said. He described a concept that would use the existing RORF platform to collect and distribute funds with guardrails tied to four focus areas borrowed from the national opioid settlement: treatment, harm reduction, prevention and recovery support.
Why it matters: council members said the proposal could reduce administrative burden on…
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