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Helios Alliance presents five-pronged needs assessment, urges targeted RFP for Mobile County opioid funds
Summary
Consultants from the Helios Alliance presented a needs assessment to the Mobile County Commission identifying five priority areas for opioid response and recommended a targeted RFP to allocate existing settlement funds, with a proposed timeline to deliver recommendations by December.
Representatives from the Helios Alliance told the Mobile County Commission on Aug. 25 that a countywide needs assessment of opioid-related services identified five priority areas and that the county should approve a carefully worded request for proposals to allocate existing opioid settlement funds.
The Helios representative said the assessment, begun in January, combined local interviews, simulation modeling using Mobile County data, and reviews of national best practices. "We have identified 5 key needs that currently exist in Mobile County, and we have converted these to action statements," the Helios representative said. The five areas are: removing barriers to care; creating more…
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