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R.I. Foundation, state award $1.3M to 19 nonprofits addressing opioid crisis

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James Bessette

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06/12/2024

THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION and the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services awarded 19 nonprofits $1.3 million in grants to help address the opioid crisis. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

PROVIDENCE – Nineteen local nonprofits working on the front lines of addressing Rhode Island’s opioid crisis received $1.3 million in grants from the Rhode Island Foundation and the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the foundation announced Wednesday. The foundation says the grants are fully funded with proceeds from Rhode Island’s opioid settlement

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PROVIDENCE – Nineteen local nonprofits working on the front lines of addressing Rhode Island’s opioid crisis received $1.3 million in grants from the Rhode Island Foundation and the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the foundation announced Wednesday. The foundation says the grants are fully funded with proceeds from Rhode Island’s opioid settlement agreement. Over the last few years, the state has collected millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors over the ongoing opioid crisis. The grants, which ranged between $22,500 and $219,000, were distributed across three different programs. The “basic needs” program helps individuals and families with funding for “care packages,” the foundation says, such as bedding, food, clothing and transportation among other expenses. Another grant program, called “family support,” underwrite programming by organizations made up of or serving families of people who use drugs, people in recovery or people who have died because of an overdose, the foundation says. The “trauma support” grants, the foundation says, target innovative, trauma-informed services focusing on first responders and peer harm reduction and recovery specialists. The organizations that received the grants are:

2nd Act Org Inc.
Access to Recovery
AIDS Care Ocean State
Bridgemark Addiction Recovery Services
Centro de Innovacion Mujer Latina
Children’s Friend & Service
Community Care Alliance
Friends Way
Interfaith Counseling Center
Local Initiatives Support Corp.
Mathewson Street United Methodist Church
Medicine Horse
Melior (Asthenis)
Progreso Latino
Project Weber/RENEW
Rhode Island Hospital
Sharieff’s Foundation Project
Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council
Thundermist Health Center

James Bessette is the PBN special projects editor, and also covers the nonprofit and education sectors. You may reach him at Bessette@PBN.com. You may also follow him on Twitter at @James_Bessette.