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The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday revised a $23.5 million plan to address opioid addiction and accepted more than $500,000 for homelessness reduction efforts.
San Bernardino County has been a party to a number of legal settlements against pharmaceutical companies for their role in enabling the nationwide opioid crisis. The county has secured more than $13 million from lawsuit settlements and expects more funding to address the addiction epidemic over an 18-year period.
On Tuesday, supervisors revised the $23.5 million County Opioid Settlement Funding Expenditure Plan that supervisors approved last year. The plan funds substance addiction programs implemented by the county’s Behavioral Health and Public Health departments.
Board-approved initiatives include:
Homelessness grant
Officials estimated 300 county residents at risk of homelessness will benefit from a $526,611 federal grant that the Board of Supervisors accepted Tuesday.
The money, which was received via the state, is from the program known as the Federal McKinney Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness. The program offers services to people who have a serious mental illness, simultaneously struggle with a serious mental illness and substance use disorders such as opioid addiction and/or are experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of becoming unhoused.
The Behavioral Health Department “will use the funding to provide targeted outreach, planning and coordination for housing services, linkage to behavioral health services including medication support, job training, education services and case management services to an estimated 300 clients at an annual estimated program cost of $2,340 per individual,” according to the county.
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