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Has been updated: December 22, 2022 at 1:53 PM
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brunovich announced this week that his office has awarded nearly $4 million in grants to combat the effects of the opioid crisis.
More than $1.7 million will be distributed across eight different programs in the state’s two largest counties, Maricopa and Pima, to help nearly 14,000 people, according to a press release on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Brnovich’s office announced an additional $2.2 million in grants to 11 groups helping more than 100,000 people in local counties.
The funding is part of the One Arizona Plan, which has settled with four pharmaceutical companies for their role in the opioid crisis.
The “One Arizona Plan” is a framework for distributing funds from future opioid settlements signed by all 90 cities and towns and 15 counties in the state in August.
The goal is to serve a wide range of diagnostic, therapeutic, and educational needs.
This includes infants born with opioid use disorder (OUD), medically underserved communities, primary school children, pregnant women and mothers, adults with mental health-related needs, the homeless, and Includes OUD trafficking survivors.
Here is a list of organizations in Maricopa and Pima Counties that have been awarded grants:
- COPE Community Services – $249,656
- FullCircle Program – $250,000
- Hope for Addiction – $112,204
- Phoenix Rescue Mission – $159,720
- Southwest Behavioral & Health Services – $250,000
- Jacob’s Hope – $249,999
- notMYkid – $250,000
- Phoenix Dream Center – $241,334
Recipients in rural counties are:
- Arai Psychiatry – $249,980 – Gila County
- Apache Youth Council – $95,840 – Apache County
- Casa Grande Alliance – $250,000 – Pinal County
- Chicanos Por La Causa – $225,522 – Yuma County
- EMPACT-Suicide Prevention Center – $125,036 – Gila County
- Graham County Substance Abuse Coalition – $250,000 – Graham County
- notMYkid – $250,000 – County of Mojave
- Addiction Loved Parents – $64,502 – All Rural Counties
- Short Creek Dream Center – $247,104 – Mojave County
- True Pursuit – $229,100 – Coconino and Mohave Counties
- Hushabye Nursery – $250,000 – Coconino and Mojave Counties
