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County seeks $850,000/year grant for overdose‑prevention program and surveillance partnership
Summary
Whole Health staff said they applied for a three‑year grant worth $850,000 per year to fund two county positions, an overdose‑surveillance partnership with Cornell and a countywide peer‑recovery network embedded at hospitals and outreach sites.
Whole Health staff reported that the department submitted a grant application that would provide roughly $850,000 per year for three years to support opioid‑overdose prevention work. The proposal would fund two county positions (an opioid/overdose prevention project director and an overdose prevention coordinator), create an overdose prevention collaborative and fund a countywide peer recovery network embedded at Code Blue, the wellness and treatment court, hospitals and other host sites.
Staff described a plan to partner with Cornell University to build an overdose‑surveillance system and dashboard that would compile dispatch, EMS and transport data to give the county a clearer, countywide view of nonfatal overdoses; the surveillance work would be restricted to appropriate partners and not all data would be publicly released. The department also plans an educational campaign targeting youth and a peer‑support training and certification component.
The department said the grant would support non‑law‑enforcement response capacity by embedding mental‑health clinicians and peers in response teams that currently coordinate with police or the sheriff. Staff emphasized that these teams already partner with law enforcement in some responses but aim to expand peer and clinical follow-up countywide.
Staff said they expect to learn whether the application is successful in early September and thanked local partners who joined the rapid proposal effort.
