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April 28, 2022
Media contact: Timothy Heider, 971-599-0459,
timothy.heider@dhsoha.state.or.us
The Measure 110 Oversight and Accountability Council (OAC) this week approved applications for drug treatment and recovery services in five additional counties, bringing the overall total to 14.
The approvals are a first step in a continuing process to award approximately $265 million in funds to substance use treatment providers across Oregon.
The counties approved this week were:
- Crook
- Hood River
- Jefferson
- Lake
- Wheeler
OAC subcommittees have now approved provider applications for the following counties:
- Baker
- Benton
- Crook
- Curry
- Gilliam
- Grant
- Harney
- Hood River
- Jefferson
- Lake
- Morrow
- Polk
- Umatilla
- Wheeler
The following counties remain under review:
- Clatsop
- Klamath
- Lincoln
- Malheur
- Tillamook
- Wallowa
- Washington
A proposed calendar with an estimated time for applications to be reviewed by the OAC subcommittee can be found here.
Learn more about the approval process for Behavioral Health Resource Networks (BHRN) here.
OHA will offer a three-month extension to Access to Care (ATC) grantees through Oct. 1, 2022. The grantees will receive a pro-rated amount based on their prior award, bringing the total funds disbursed to $39.9 million.
These funds will prevent a lapse of funding or interruption of service for grantees while the OAC continues to review and approve applications.
To receive Measure 110 funding, successful applicants within each Oregon county must either be able to provide all the required services or work cooperatively with other providers to establish a coordinated network of services that include:
- Screening and comprehensive behavioral health needs assessment
- Individual intervention planning, case management and connection to services
- Low barrier substance use treatment
- Peer support, mentoring and recovery services
- Housing services
- Harm reduction intervention
- Supported employment
In instances where all the required services are not available through the successful applicants within a county region, OHA will explore and bring forward recommendations to the Council on adding the missing services to establish a complete BHRN.
After the letters of intent to award are sent out, providers who are part of a BHRN collaboration within a county region must work cooperatively to establish Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) to complete establishment of a BHRN.
Negotiations with the approved counties are scheduled to begin next week. OHA will work to facilitate that process, while also working with each entity to finalize grant agreements for scopes of work and funding.
OHA will provide frequent updates on the application review, approval and agreement process.
What has been approved so far
             Read more about Measure 110
Background: In November 2020, Oregon voters passed Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020, which became effective on Dec. 4, 2020, to better serve people actively using substances or diagnosed with a substance use disorder. In July 2021, the legislature passed SB 755, which amended the act and made it more feasible to implement.
People who provide drug treatment and recovery services and advocates for criminal justice reform wrote Measure 110 in response to the high rate of drug addiction and overdoses in Oregon, and the disproportionate impact of those outcomes on Oregon’s communities of color.
Their goal was to establish a more equitable and effective approach to substance use disorder. OHA is working with the Measure 110 Oversight and Accountability Council to develop a first-in-the-nation health-based approach to substance use and overdose prevention system, which is more helpful, caring and cost-effective than punishing and criminalizing people who need help.
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