Resources
Explore our catalog to learn more about opioid settlements and how to create the best approach for deploying your community’s funds.
General Settlement Information
Unfamiliar with opioid settlements? Check out the resources below to learn about the agreements and review best practices for spending funds.
General Settlement Information
MOSS
MOSS Center Opioid Settlement Funds Quick Guide
This is a one pager that provides general information about the Opioid Settlements, parties responsible for managing the allocated funds, and an explanation of the “4 buckets” of spending.
Maine Attorney General
Office of the Maine Attorney General Opioid Settlement Agreements
This website provides information on the settlement agreements by year and subdivision regarding opioid settlement funds. In addition to specific settlement agreements from: Jansen, Allegra, TEVA, CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart. The website also has a list of principles for the use of the National Opioid Settlement Payments in addition to a list of settlement funds by county and municipalities.
MOSS
MOSS Center "4 Pillar One Pagers"
The MOSS Center has created one-pagers for the 4 pillars of opioid settlement fund spending: prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery. These one-pagers provide definitions, background information, and examples of the 4 pillars with direct links to resources underlined throughout the document. Download Substance Use Prevention Download Harm Reduction Download Substance Use Treatment Download Recovery
National Academy for State Health Policy
Understanding Opioid Settlement Spending Plans Across States: Key Components and Approaches
The authors give a brief background on the settlement totals agreed upon by 46 of the 50 states in addition to separate settlements for the settlement with native tribes and tribal health organizations ($590 million) to then further elaborate on the obstacles and opportunities relevant to states implementing processes and administrative structures to guide settlement funding. The authors then elaborate on the requirements for opioid settlement spending in the national settlement agreement, such as: funding allocations within states, allowable uses of funding, and required reporting of settlement spending. Sam Mermin, Rebekah Falkner, Katie Greene
John Hopkins: Bloomberg School of Public Health
Principles for the Use of Opioid Settlement Funds- Johns Hopkins University
This organization provides nationally recognized guidance for the spending of settlement funds endorsed by over sixty organizations. Gives a background of the opioid crisis and its effect on national public health. Lastly describes the five principles states are encouraged to inform spending and allocation of funds.
Christine Minhee, J.D.
Opioid Settlement Tracker
The webpage is an opioid settlement tracker dashboard for national opioid settlement funding. With information relevant to who decides how to use opioid settlement funds, a national map interactive map of “how much of a states opioid settlement funds expenditures will be accessible to the public”. Along with a graphical representation of funds received by each distributor sorted by state and strategies relevant to each state’s opioid settlement spending approach.
Vital Strategies Overdose Prevention Program
Guides for Community Advocates on the Opioid Settlements
The website provides a brief introduction to the opioid settlement funds and the opportunities they provide, in addition to a guide/description of how each state is allocating their funds and whether there has been an established advisory board for those funds. Christine Minhee, J.D., Kate Boulton, and Derek Carr
Johns Hopkins: Bloomberg School of Public Health
Primer on Spending Funds from the Opioid Litigation
The primer was designed with the intent of guiding state and local jurisdictions identify evidence-based programs to fund through opioid settlement funds in addition to an introductory background of the nine core abatement strategies (e.g., access to naloxone, improved prison and jail conditions).
National Association of County and City Officials: Community Education Group
A Quick “How-To” Guide for Understanding Opioid Settlements State-to-State
The guide introduces the opioid crisis and settlement litigation in addition to the national settlement total, the opioid settlement tracker, guidance revolving the interpretation of legal documents and settlement fund allocation plans, and information on public resource navigation by state.
Community Data
Understanding your community is essential to developing an effective spending strategy. Consider this your one-stop shop for surveys, needs assessments, and additional resource and capacity information.
Community Data
The State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup
Maine State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW)
The website gives a background on the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup and its purpose as a clearing house for substance use and mental health related data indicators. Data shared includes key substance abuse prevention and related behavioral health indicators. The group is funded under the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is focused on the prevention of substance use among 12-25 year olds.
Maine Department of Education
Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey (MIYHS)
A survey first administered in 2009 with a focus on the attitude of students grade 5 through 12 regarding tobacco, alcohol, substance use, mental health, nutrition, physical activity, and protective factors. The study is administered every odd-numbered year.
Maine Department of Health and Human Services
Maine Community Health Needs Assessments
The website is a database of community health profiles focused on health data indicators that describe demographics, health outcomes, and conditions that influence our health sorted by county, city and district. In addition. There are health equity data sheets relevant to race, ethnicity, sexual health and identity/orientation, education, age, and income.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Social Vulnerability Index
The Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP) Social Vulnerability Index is focused on addressing the differences in socioeconomic factors such as poverty, lack of access to transportation, and crowded housing. The Social Vulnerability Index standardizes demographic and socio-economic data points in communities to provide a snapshot their social vulnerability level.
Country Health Rankings & Roadmaps
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
The webpage give a background of the County Health program out of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute focused on drawing attention to why there are differences health within and across communities. The County Health Rankings Model has a focus on environmental, social and economic factors, clinical care, and health behaviors. This resource takes these factors into consideration and allows counties to see how they compare to others.
Needs Assessments
The State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup
The Principles Quick Guide for Developing a Community Needs Assessment
The website gives a background on the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup and its purpose as a clearing house for substance use and mental health related data indicators. Data shared includes key substance abuse prevention and related behavioral health indicators. The group is funded under the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is focused on the prevention of substance use among 12-25 year olds.
AHA Community Health Improvement
Community Health Assessment Toolkit
The website gives a background on the benefits of critical health assessments for stakeholder organizations and community members to collectively identify and address community health needs while assessing strengths and weaknesses. While providing resources and toolkits to address community engagement, equitable community partnerships, strategic timing, and respectful realistic expectations.
Compassion Capital Fund National Resource Center
Conducting a Community Assessment
The document provides a background to the community health assessment process and the benefits that stem from them in addition to those steps taken throughout the process to effectively serve a community.
The University of Kansas: Community Toolbox
Developing a Plan for Assessing Local Needs and Resources
The website provides a teaching tool to better develop community assessment for a better understanding of community needs and resources. The resource defines a need as the gap between what is and what should be. The website also defines who should be involved in the development of a plan and when a plan should be conducted. This resource supplies a plan outline for conducting a needs assessment.
Available SUD Education, Prevention, Harm Reduction, Treatment and Recovery Resources in Maine
University of Maine/Governor’s Office
Maine Drug Data Hub
A resource which is the home to metrics, reports and resources used to explore and assist with substance use disorder in addition to dashboards and maps on the topic. The website is a dashboard of dashboards. The resource aims to provide resources and information aimed to reduce the harm caused by drug use and overdose and track the progress towards reaching outlined goals in Maine’s Opioid Response 2023-2025 Strategic Action Plan.
Department of Health and Human Service/United Way
211 Maine
The website is a hub for aid relevant to COVID-19 information, heating fuel payment assistance substance use resources, and housing. Providing information on those resources available to Maine communities.
Access Maine
Access Maine
The website provides information about resources to help prevent, treat, and support recovery for those affected by substance use disorder, including opioid use disorder, and gambling disorder. In addition, the website provides resources relevant to youth services.
Overdose Prevention Through Intensive Outreach, Naloxone, and Safety
OPTIONS
The webpage provides resources for those seeking treatment, help, or information for themselves or a loved one with substance use disorder. The website provides resources for Naloxone (Narcan), safe use, partner toolkits, and finding a liaison. The website provides stories from those who have benefited from those resources and works towards changing the stigma around addiction and treatment.
Get Maine Naloxone
Get Maine Naloxone
The resource provides a general overview of the positive impact naloxone (Narcan) has had on Maine communities in addition to avenue to obtain training and doses of the medication for individuals and loved ones, emergency medical personnel, and law enforcement officials.
Maine Center of Disease Control and Prevention
Maine Public Health Districts
The website identifies and a background and reasoning behind the creation of Maine public health districts including five tribal communities. These districts serve the purpose of: creating the geographics and local framework for greater consistency and equity in the delivery of health services, providing a consistent basis for regional planning and coordination, and building sustainable infrastructure through regional co-location of Maine CDC and DHHS staff.
Best Practices and Evidence-Based Programming
Opioid Settlement Process Planning
MOSS
MOSS Center Opioid Settlement Fund Process Map
This map visualizes an Opioid Settlement Fund planning process that aids subdivisions in utilizing best practices, following the John’s Hopkins Principles for the Use of Funds from the Opioid Litigation, and ensure spending follows Maine’s Exhibit E: List of Opioid Remediation Uses.
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Legal Action Center: National Association of County & City Health Officials
Equity Considerations for Local Health Departments on Opioid Settlement Funds
The resource is a checklist tool designed to guide county and city health officials through decision making and priority setting on accessing and disbursing opioid settlement funds. The resource has been developed with community engagement, oversight and accountability, and cultural humility as core values within the disbursement process. The website lists the “do’s and don’ts” of spending, how funds should and should not be used, and places an emphasis on prioritizing underserved populations.
Rand: USC Schaeffer Opioid Policy Tools and Information Center OPTIC
Strategies for Effectively Allocating Opioid Settlement Funds
The website gives a general overview of past settlement funds from pharmaceutical companies in addition to community missteps of the past in relation to settlement funds from tobacco companies and strategies to ovoid said missteps. In support of that goal, the OPTIC researchers have compiled: guiding principles for allocating opioid settlement funds, recommendations for addressing the root causes of opioid death, profiles of studies assessing the effectiveness of specific programs and policies.
Evidence-Based Programming
Recovery Research Institute
Addictionary
The webpage serves as a dictionary resource for terminology and phrases relevant to the substance use disorder crisis and highlights words and phrases which fall under stigma and those that have triggering meanings to those suffering from substance use disorder.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Prevention of Substance Use
The website provides a background of the importance behind combating the effects of the substance use and mental health crises. In addition to an overview and a history behind SAMHSA’s policies, programs, and services, This site also shares evidence based programs to prevent the onset of substance misuse, substance use disorder prevention, workforce/practitioner training and education, resources and publications, related SAMHSA grant programs, related organizations.
National Academy for State Health Policy
State Strategies for Preventing Substance Use and Overdose Among Youth and Adolescents
The resource provides a background on substance use among youth. As well as the negative outcomes that stem from the opioid overdose crisis. The webpage also gives insight to strategies and interventions that have shown beneficial effect in the past and best practice strategies used to leverage settlement funding to support primary prevention.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Prevention Overview
The webpage provides a background on the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in relation to the organizations support of research to develop and test effective, sustainable, scalable strategies to prevent substance use or misuse, progression of substance use disorders, and other negative health effects of substance use. The website emphasizes the long-term benefits of evidence-based prevention strategies in relation to cost saving for both personal and public health especially when implemented during childhood and adolescence.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center: Substance Use Prevention
The webpage provides a database of evidence-based resources for communities, clinicians, policymakers and others with the information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings. Such as: guides for suicide prevention, substance abuse among young adults with disabilities, and practical tools for first responders.
Youth.gov
Youth Substance Use Prevention
The website provides a background on the benefits of substance abuse prevention and prevents multiple substance abuse prevention interventions involving family, school, and community focusing on environmental and community factors and policies, developmental factors, or skill development.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Substance Misuse Prevention for Young Adults
The resource is an evidence-based guide series on substance misuse prevention for young adults. Content overviews include: preventing substance misuse among young adults, effective substance misuse prevention among young adults, evidence-based programs for preventing substance misuse among young adults, guidance for selecting and implementing evidence-based practices and programs, resources for evaluation and quality improvement.
Harm Reduction
National Harm Reduction Coalition
Shaping Policy for Harm Reduction to Thrive
Resource Center meant to support advocates working to make harm reduction related policy improvements.
National Harm Reduction Coalition
Principles of Harm Reduction
The Principles of Harm Reduction explains the best practice foundation that is key to the success of any harm reduction initiative or program. This source includes a Resource Center that offers training, guides, fact sheets, and webinars addressing different aspects of harm reduction.
SAMHSA
Harm Reduction Framework
Harm Reduction Framework provides a history of harm reduction in the US, explains its role in connecting with some of the most vulnerable populations, and a roadmap of best practices.
Johns Hopkins: Bloomberg School of Public Health
Messaging on Harm Reduction: How to Talk to Stakeholders
This resource provides guidance for speaking with potential partners about harm reduction with tailored language and message strategies.
Recovery Research Institute
Harm Reduction
Basic principles of harm reduction, examples of services, and successful harm reduction programs across North America.
United States Dept. of Health and Human Services
Overdose Prevention Strategy: Harm Reduction
Current federal harm reduction strategies being used.
Maine Drug Data Hub
Focus Area 2023-2025: Harm Reduction
Metrics regarding the states goal of building harm reduction skills, improving public understanding that that everyone has a role to play in preventing overdoses, and reducing the number of fatal and nonfatal overdoses.
Treatment
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Evidence Based Practice Resource Center: Substance Use Treatment
The webpage is a resource center committed to improving prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for mental and substance use disorders. Those resources include: an opioid-overdose reduction continuum of care, engaging community coalitions to decrease opioid overdose deaths, and best practice guidelines for successful reentry from criminal justice settings for people living with mental health conditions and/or substance use disorders.
National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers
Treatment Methods and Evidence-Based Practices
The webpage provides insight on the experiences of separate individuals dealing with substance use disorders while providing a non-exhaustive list that covers evidence-based methods used by rehabilitation centers and private practices nationwide. These Include methods such as: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), individual and group counseling, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), experiential therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Resource Guide: Best Practices for Effective Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Services
The webpage is a guide for best practices for effective adolescent substance use disorder services. The resource also lists the adverse consequences of adolescent substance use including overdose, substance use disorders (SUDs), negative impacts on brain development and even death. The resource guide offers information about evidence-based best practices tailored for adolescents experiencing SUDs.
Recovery Research Institute
Recovery Research Institute Guide: 11 Indicators of Quality Addiction Treatment
The resource provides a guide of 11 indicators to be used when identifying high-quality addiction treatment programs.
American Medical Association
Care for Substance Use Disorder
The resource is a guide for medical professionals and those on the care team for substance use disorders to overcome key barriers to utilizing integrated behavioral health (BH) care in their practices treating substance use disorder as a chronic disease.
Recovery
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center: Substance Use Recovery
The webpage is a resource which provides information to communities, clinicians, and policy makers relevant to improving prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for mental and substance use disorders. Including information about: opioid overdose reduction continuum of care approaches, engaging community coalitions to decrease opioid overdose deaths, and best practices for recovery housing.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Best Practices for Recovery Housing
The resource provides the basic evidence based guidelines for those best practices pertinent to recovery housing such as: incorporating principles of the social model approach, promoting equity and ensuring cultural competence, and establishing a clear operational definition.
American Addiction Centers – Wendy Manwarren Generes
Addiction Recovery and Aftercare: Programs, Activities, and Support Groups
The webpage provides a background on treatment options following rehab defined as aftercare. The resource outlines the four most common forms of aftercare as being: 12-step programs, outpatient are, counseling, and sober living. The webpage further goes on to highlight how to best create an aftercare plan incorporating relationships with friends, family and others in aftercare recovery programs in addition to strategies implemented towards relapse prevention.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Recovery and Recovery Support Resources
The webpage is a database portal with resources relevant to training and technical assistance, material and publications surrounding peer support, webinars, and a policy and practice improvement series.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Recovery Care and Support Services
The website gives an introduction and definition of recovery as a process of change in which people improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential through clinical treatment, medications, faith-based approaches, peer and family support, and self-care. The resource also provides in person and virtual recovery resources and interactive tools geared towards recovery.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Peer Support Workers for Those in Recovery
The webpage gives an introduction behind peer support in recovery and defines peer support workers as those individuals who have been successful in the recovery process who help others experiencing similar situations. The webpage further defines the role of peer support workers in relation to supervising other peer workers, leading recovery groups, monitoring and setting goals, and developing resources.
Rural Health Information Hub
Mutual Support Groups and Self-Help Programs
The webpage provides a definition behind mutual support groups and self-help programs as structured programs that have behavioral, spiritual, and cognitive components such as 12-step programs like alcoholics anonymous (AA) or narcotics anonymous (NA).
Community Engagement
Rural Policy Research Institute
Rural Community Engagement Resource Guide
The resource stresses the important of community engagement as a critical function for identifying needs, gathering feedback, and securing community and partner involvement in strategies that improve health, increase value, and drive equitable care delivery. The resource has been developed as a guide as to provide rural health care leaders a variety of toolkits, strategies, and information to help initiate, improve, and inspire community engagement strategies that support value.
SAMHSA
Community Engagement: An Essential Component of an Effective and Equitable Substance Use Prevention System
This guide provides a review of evidence related to utilizing community engagement to support the implementation and improvement of evidence-based programs and policies
Institute for Local Government
Inclusive Public Engagement
The webpage showcases the benefits local governments in California have experienced. This website provides resources for other local governments to implement inclusive engagement strategies to replicate those benefits. Resources and benefits revolve around budgeting, land use, immigrant engagement, and economic development with a basic introduction and background for all topics listed.
National Association of County and City Health Officials
Mobilizing Community Partnerships in Rural Communities: Strategies and Techniques
The resource provides a guide to building partnerships among local health departments, community health centers, healthcare organizations, offices of rural health, hospitals, non-profit organizations, and the private sector to meet the needs of rural communities.
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National Academy for State Health Policy
Promising Practices for Collaboration on State and Local Opioid Settlement Spending
The webpage provides a background into how opioid settlement funding has provided states and counties new opportunities to address opioid deaths and address gaps in the continuum of care. The resource also provides a link to a webinar by North Carolina and Colorado state officials working together to maximize the impact of settlement resources.
National Academy for State Health Policy]
Engaging with People with Lived Experience in Opioid Settlement Decision Making
The resource provides an introduction into the efforts being made by states and counties to engage those who have been affected by the opioid epidemic in decision making, policy development, and program implementation and advocates a requirement for representation of those with lived experience being involved in the decision making process at all levels and placed on advisory boards along with other decision making bodies. Rebekah Falkner
Develop Informed Spending Plan and Track Spending
John Hopkins: Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Principles Quick Guide to Monitoring Opioid Settlement Spending
The webpage gives an introduction to the guidelines and principles used to monitor the spending of opioid settlement funds. The resource defines tools such as indicators as measurable outputs that can be used to determine if a program is being implemented as intended and achieving its expected outcomes. Further providing guidelines and principles for states and counties to use these indicators, establish a strategic plan and matching priorities with funding opportunities.
PEW
A Guide to Evidence-Based Budget Development
The website provides evidence-based guidelines for using research to inform program funding decisions in addition to already implemented performance-based strategies to overcome stakeholder concerns about the effectiveness of public programs. The resource pushes against past notions based on anecdotes and inertia funding the same programs year after year with limited knowledge of the outcomes. Sara Dube
CITRINCOOPERMAN
Six Best Practices for Financial Reporting and Analysis
The website is a dashboard that gives insight to opportunity reports relevant to trends impacting the market for legal services in addition to private equity and venture capital reports. The website further showcases reports on” the staffing industry outlook, manufacturing and distribution year planning, and restaurants and hospitality insights.
Johns Hopkins: Bloomberg School of Public Health
Opioid Settlement Principles Resource and Indicators
The webpage provides a dashboard with key resources surrounding how to use Opioid Settlement Principles Resource and Indicators (OSPRI) and how those indicators such be used. Such how to manage opioid settlement funds and addressing racial and gender-based equity.
Information Sharing and Spending Transparency
Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice
Data Collection and Sharing for Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement
The webpage provides insight for reasoning behind the need of reliable data for jurisdictions to evaluate the effectiveness of programming to implement evidence-based practices. The webpage defines differences between program evaluation and measurement performance. In addition, the webpage describes the movement towards the use of scientifically validated methods being a driver behind the movement for outcome measurements.
Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice
How Local Governments Can Use Data to Better Serve Residents
The webpage provides insight for reasoning behind the need of reliable data for jurisdictions to evaluate the effectiveness of programming to implement evidence-based practices. The webpage defines differences between program evaluation and measurement performance. In addition, the webpage describes the movement towards the use of scientifically validated methods being a driver behind the movement for outcome measurements.
Johns Hopkins: Bloomberg School of Public Health
Navigating Settlement Fund Decision-Making with Integrity, Transparency, and Accountability
The website introduces the 2021 and 2002 legal claims against pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution companies stemming from actions that fueled the opioid crisis. In addition, this identifies and introduces conflicts of interest as a common encounter in the opioid fund spending processes, and its impact on transparency. Resources to further explain conflicts of interest and how to properly handle them are provided.
Monitoring & Evaluation
National Association of Counties
The Principles Quick Guide to Monitoring Opioid Settlement Fund Spending
The webpage provides an introduction to the Principles for the Use of Funds From the Opioid Litigation used as nationally recognized guidance for states, counties, and cities receiving money form the lawsuits against entities that contributed to the opioid crisis. The webpage further defines indicators as measurable outputs that can be used to determine if a program is being implemented as intended and achieving its expected outcomes. The website then gives further insight in how counties can use these indicators, where the data for these indicators are sourced from, how to use those indicators to establish a strategic plan, and how to match priorities with funding opportunities.
Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice
Data Collection and Sharing for Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement
The webpage provides insight for reasoning behind the need of reliable data for jurisdictions to evaluate the effectiveness of programming to implement evidence-based practices. The webpage defines differences between program evaluation and measurement performance. In addition, the webpage describes the movement towards the use of scientifically validated methods being a driver behind the movement for outcome measurements.
RTI International
Supporting Decision Makers Using Opioid Settlement Funds: How to Monitor, Evaluate, and Track the Impact of Opioid Settlement-Funded Initiatives
The resource provides an introduction and background of RIT International as an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition, with a vision to address the world’s most critical problems with science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future. The resource further introduces principles and frameworks for effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E), monitoring and evaluation of state-level advisory committees, and the monitoring and evaluating of community-level prevention and intervention efforts.
Toolkits & Templates
The Request for Proposal Template series includes a range of documents created to help subdivisions formalize their complete RFP process for Opioid Settlement Funds. Subdivisions may connect with the MOSS Center for support in making community specific adjustments, finalizing these documents, and transferring their application into an editable PDF or online form.
The Policy Template Series contains 3 varied approaches to settlement fund spending. The documents aid subdivisions in formalizing their decision making process. Subdivisions may connect with the MOSS Center for support in making community specific adjustment and finalizing these documents.
Request for Proposal Template Series
MOSS
Letter of Commitment Template
MOSS
Request for Proposal Template Series Overview
MOSS
Request for Proposal Application Template
MOSS
Request for Proposal Budget Template
MOSS
Version 1: Request for Proposal Scoring Rubric Template
This template scores individual criteria for each section and includes weighted scores
MOSS
Version 2: Request for Proposal Scoring Rubric
This template includes full descriptions of each scoring criteria and the possible scores that can be assigned.
Policy Template Series
MOSS
Policy Template 1: Overview and Instructions
MOSS
Policy Template 1: Grant Application Process
MOSS
Policy Template 2: Overview and Instructions
MOSS
Policy Template 2: Priorities and Committee Establishment
MOSS
Policy Template 3: Overview and Instructions
MOSS
Policy Template 3: Spending Priorities Process Explanation
Maine Recovery Council Resources
The Maine Recovery Council was established pursuant to the Maine State Subdivision Memorandum of Understanding (PDF) and Agreement Regarding Use of Settlement Funds and 5 M.R.S.A. §203-C. The purpose of the Council is to direct the disbursement of funds within the Maine Recovery Fund for specific uses throughout the state to address the opioid crisis in Maine. Examples of approved uses are reversing overdoses through naloxone or other FDA-approved drugs, expanding the availability of medication assisted treatment for Mainers struggling with opioid use disorder, helping Mainers avoid opioid use through evidence-based prevention programs, and providing additional special education resources to Maine school administrative units. The Council is composed of 15 Members appointed by the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, the Attorney General, and certain counties, cities, and towns in Maine.
Maine Recovery Council Resources
MOSS
Maine Recovery Council and Maine Recovery Council and Committee Membership
This document contains Council membership by appointee as well as specific committee membership.
MOSS
Maine Recovery Council Prevention Funding Recommendations
This document provides the Maine Recovery Council and others interested with recommendations for prevention funding priorities for the State of Maine.
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