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TROCC presents 2025 report as commissioners approve RFA‑3 grants to local agencies
Summary
The Tippecanoe Regional Opioid Settlement Community Committee reported on RFA‑2 and prior awards, and the county approved RFA‑3 grant contracts to multiple community agencies; TROCC emphasized SMART goals, quarterly reporting, and tracking to Exhibit E of the settlement.
Carol Ott, chair of the Tippecanoe Regional Opioid Settlement Community Committee, presented TROCC’s 2025 annual report and told the Tippecanoe County Board of Commissioners how settlement funds were spent across housing, treatment, prevention and community outreach programs.
Ott listed approximately 11 agencies funded in the 2025 RFA round and described how funds supported community health workers, housing assistance, youth resilience programs, reentry services and crisis‑intervention training. She said grant recipients must map programming to Exhibit E of the national opioid settlement and that the RFA 3 application process includes new requirements to match community‑identified priorities.
The report highlighted program outputs presented by grantees: Outreach Advocacy Center (622 patients in four months), Recovery Cafe (more than 6,000 service contacts across the reporting period), NAMI West Central Indiana (about 4,000 contacts), Meridian Health Services and others. Ott and a representative of The Hive explained those counts include recurring participants as well as new attendees rather than unique individuals, and TROCC said quarterly reporting and SMART goals will improve measurement under RFA 3.
Commissioners praised the collaborative effort and moved to approve the RFA‑3 grant contracts to the list of agencies Ott named (Limestone Health was noted as not yet signed and will follow). The motion to approve the contracts passed by voice vote.
Ott said TROCC has added governance and conflict‑of‑interest safeguards, reconfigured review panels and is developing a public‑facing dashboard to improve transparency and accountability for opioid settlement funds. She also described emergency funding awards reviewed in late 2025 and said the committee is monitoring outcomes and refining scoring and reporting to better capture who is being served.
The board’s action authorized staff to execute RFA‑3 contracts in substantial form and to route signatures for agencies present at the meeting. The county will proceed to finalize remaining signatures off‑record where necessary.
