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The first round of State Opioid Response (SOR) grants have been completed, with over $11.2 million in grants awarded to 27 counties, tribes, health care providers and community agencies to fight the opioid epidemic.
Grants focus on:
- Increasing the availability of Naloxone
- Expanding Medication Assisted Treatment and recovery resources
- Innovative response to Minnesota's opioid epidemic
- Building the workforce
A complete list of grantees is available at the DHS website.
DHS issued the RFP earlier this year. The first grants started going out in July, and the final contracts have now been fully executed. The grants are part of a $17.7 million 2-year grant from SAMHSA awarded to Minnesota last fall. The program aims to address the opioid crisis by increasing access to medication-assisted treatment, reducing unmet treatment need, and reducing opioid overdose related deaths through the provision of prevention, treatment and recovery.
These grants add to a range of opioid efforts already underway, including the new state Opioid Epidemic Response Advisory Council, Minnesota State Government Opioid Oversight Project and prescribing guidelines, plus past federal grants such as for medication-assisted treatment and the State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis grant.
A second round SOR grant was also recently awarded to Minnesota. The supplemental grant of $4.26 million includes $775 thousand in additional funding for Naloxone and support for ongoing work in prevention, clinician training and public awareness. A request for proposal is under review for grants to provide culturally responsive American Indian, African American and African-born opioid use disorder treatment programming, as well as other new initiatives.
Both the SOR grant and the supplemental grant runs through September 2020.
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