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May 5, 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 seven additional counties, bringing the overall total to 21.
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 Columbia, Clatsop, Lincoln, Malheur, Tillamook, Wallowa and Washington.
What has been approved so far
A calendar with an estimated timeline for application reviews by the OAC subcommittee can be found here. Learn more about the approval process for Behavioral Health Resource Networks (BHRN) here.
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 — a BHRN — with services including:
- 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
After the letters of intent to award are distributed, providers who are part of a BHRN collaboration within a county region will work cooperatively to establish Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) and complete establishment of a BHRN.
In instances where all the required services are not available through the successful applicants within a county region, OHA will make recommendations to add the services needed to establish a complete BHRN.
Orientation with the approved applicants began today, with OHA facilitating the process. OHA is working to move through the negotiation phase as quickly as possible.
The goal of these negotiations is to:
- Ensure that every service element is available to form a BHRN in each county.
- Establish viable budgets for each BHRN.
- Ensure that all approved applicants are functionally associated with a BHRN.
A fast-track option is available in cases when all service elements for a BHRN are available, and applicants within a county region can agree on a budget that falls at or under the allotted funding amount available by county.
OHA is prepared to release funding no later than 20 days after a BHRN receives full approval and all agreements are executed.
OHA will provide frequent updates on the application review, approval and agreement process.
Other M110 funds to be disbursed
OHA will offer a three-month extension to Access to Care (ATC) grantees through Sept. 30, 2022. The grantees will receive a pro-rated amount based on their prior award, bringing the total funds disbursed to approximately $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.
Access to Care grantees comprise 70 substance use treatment programs that serve provide treatment, housing, vocational training and other life-changing support services.
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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