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May 20, 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 its first Behavioral Health Resource Network (BHRN) grant, funding drug treatment and recovery services in Harney County.
Symmetry Care Inc., which operates a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic that offers a wide range of support services, will coordinate the BHRN for the Harney County region.
The approved budget is $857,711. Symmetry Care offered an in-kind contribution of $455,000 toward additional staff and reserve funding for contingent additional services over the term of the 18-month contract.
This represents the first award from approximately $265 million in funds allocated through regional BHRNs to support substance use treatment providers across Oregon.
To receive funding, successful applicants within each Oregon county must provide a slate of services through a funded provider network or BHRN.
OAC subcommittees also approved applications for Sherman and Coos counties, bringing the number of approved counties to 29. Additionally, several applications were approved for Lane, Wasco and Multnomah counties, but there are still applications pending.
The subcommittees are expected to review applications from Deschutes, Douglas, Jackson and Josephine counties next week.
What has been approved so far
A calendar with an estimated timeline for the OAC subcommittees can be found here.
More information on the approval process for BHRNs can be found here.
Last week, the OAC voted to adopt a new 18-month grant spending timeline that will extend from July 2022 through December 2023. This means that regardless of when a grant agreement is final, the grant will be extended through December 2023.
OHA is hosting welcome and orientation sessions with approved providers and is moving through the negotiation phase as quickly as possible.
Funding will be released no later than 20 days after a BHRN receives full approval and all agreements between OHA and the providers are executed.
OHA will continue to provide frequent updates on the application review, approval and agreement process.
Other M110 funds to be disbursed
A three-month extension will be offered 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 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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