Opioid Settlement Funds
Opioid Settlement Funds to Counties are based on a Memorandum with the West Virginia First Foundation. Local Governments received 24.5% of the total funds received by the state of West Virginia. Kanawha County has received its first allocation, which totaled $2,915,232.54. Per the Memorandum of Understanding, the “Approved Purposes” for the uses of the funds shall mean evidence-based strategies, programming, and/or services used to expand the availability of treatment for individuals affected by substance use disorders and/or addiction, to develop, promote and provide evidence-based substance use prevention strategies, to provide substance use avoidance and awareness education, to engage in enforcement to curtail the sale, distribution, promotion or use of opioids and other drugs, to decrease the oversupply of licit and illicit opioids and to support recovery from addiction to be performed by qualified providers (Exhibit A provides all categories of approved purposes). Attached is Exhibit A, a Schedule of Core Strategies for projects.
Please complete the application below in its entirety. You may attach additional pages if needed. Applications will be accepted for up to $250,000; however, funds are limited due to the amount of funding received from the settlement.
Once submitted, this application and any supporting documents are considered a public record and will be posted on the County’s website and made available to the public and the media upon request.