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City extends Consistent Care contract and highlights outcomes from opioid‑funded high‑utilizer program
Summary
Council heard a contract amendment request to extend funding for Consistent Care's high‑utilizer program (opioid settlement dollars). Staff reported about 176 clients served through the contract period, high rates of self‑reported opioid disorder and mental‑health diagnoses, and promising enrollment in MAT and housing referrals.
Maggie Yates and Consistent Care's physician‑leader, Dr. Nevin, told the committee the city will extend and amend a contract to continue a high‑utilizer intervention funded by opioid settlement dollars.
Dr. Nevin summarized the model bluntly: “We have a model where we offer people treatment or we offer them consequences,” he said, describing referrals from community court and law enforcement that give chronically high‑need individuals a path into treatment or legal consequences when they decline help.
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