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Region 12 opioid council outlines $22M settlement allocation, opens roughly $1.4M RFP for local programs
Summary
Region 12’s opioid council briefed the committee on settlement funding distribution, reporting that the region expects about $22 million over the 18-year settlement and currently has roughly $1.4 million available via an open RFP prioritizing treatment, prevention and recovery programs.
Rhiannon Strait of the Omni Institute told the committee that Region 12’s opioid council has been allocating settlement funds to local prevention, treatment and recovery initiatives and has an open request-for-proposals for about $1.4 million in community funding.
"We are expected to receive about $22,000,000 directly to the region," Strait said, describing the council’s long-term planning window through 2038 and noting that the council had requested just under $7,000,000 so far from state-level allocations. She said the council currently has a bit more than $1.4 million that has been approved for distribution and that a broad RFP for treatment, prevention, recovery, criminal-justice and harm-reduction activities is live.
Strait described funding priorities informed by a public survey and noted a planned major investment in a youth crisis stabilization program (about $3.4 million of the regional plan). She outlined allowable spending buckets defined by the national settlement MOU and explained that local municipalities receive 20% of the statewide allocation but may redirect those funds to the regional council for pooled use.
The council uses Douglas County government as its fiscal agent and the county board of commissioners ultimately awards grants and program lines through the iterative planning-and-distribution process. Strait encouraged local providers in the room to apply and to contact the council for guidance on priority points for the RFP.
