City’s Health Department Awards First Round of Opioid Settlement Funding to Combat Crisis in Underserved Communities and Youth

Press Release

March 12, 2024 (MINNEAPOLIS) – The City of Minneapolis is losing community members to the opioid epidemic at an alarming rate. To help combat this crisis, the City is expected to receive approximately $18M in opioid settlement funds over the next 18 years from national settlements reached with opioid distributors and manufacturers.

The City has awarded the first round of opioid settlement money to community-based, culturally specific organizations combating the opioid crisis, with a focus on underserved communities and youth.
The awardees of the Community Opioid Response & Engagement (CORE) funding will focus their work on treatment, long-term recovery, and prevention to reduce disparities in the number of overdose-related deaths and emergency room visits.

Awardees

The awardees represent the diverse needs of the Minneapolis population and will increase access to and options for opioid treatment. Their focus will carry out the outlined CORE funding goals.

Access Healing will receive $20,000: A significant portion of the funding will go towards establishing safer and more supportive culturally specific recovery housing facilities. Funding will also help expand wraparound services. Visit: https://accesshealingcenter.com/

Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) will receive $100,000: The program will focus on serving Latino youth and their families. They have outpatient chemical health practitioners, and therapists and provide both substance use and mental health services.… Read the rest “City’s Health Department Awards First Round of Opioid Settlement Funding to Combat Crisis in Underserved Communities and Youth”