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Council reviews contract extension with Rutgers to continue street‑level substance‑use outreach using opioid settlement funds
Summary
The council reviewed a proposed contract extension with Rutgers to continue a mobile medical unit providing behavioral health, wound care and on‑site prescriptions to the unsheltered population; staff said the $535,000 contract would be funded with opioid settlement dollars and would expand teams in the community.
City staff told the Newark Municipal Council on Dec. 17 about a contract with Rutgers to continue and expand a medical outreach unit serving the unsheltered population.
The initiative, launched earlier in the year, provides a mobile medical team led by a psychiatric nurse practitioner, a social worker and a licensed substance‑use counselor supervised by a medical director.…
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