The city of St. Petersburg, Florida, is offering $1 million from an opioid settlement to nonprofit groups working to help combat the opioid crisis.
The city of St. Petersburg, Florida, is allocating $1 million from an opioid settlement to nonprofit organizations working to address the opioid crisis through treatment and recovery support services. As part of the settlement, St. Petersburg will receive $6 million over 18 years.
Grants will be awarded to proposals that offer respite housing, overdose prevention, substance use prevention and education, harm reduction and peer support, with priority given to proposals that focus on respite housing, harm reduction and peer support. 'There's never enough help for addiction as rates continue to increase,' Matthew Schaefer, the director of operations for Real Recovery Solutions, told Fox 13.
will fund maybe two to three weeks of sober living. And give that recovering addict a chance to go find a job and start paying their own rent,' Schaefer said. One of the biggest needs in the region, according to Schaefer, is making detox treatment more accessible and affordable. Many detox centers are privately funded and require full payment or insurance, but others have long wait lists to get a bed.
are told, 'hey, you know, we're three to five days out from a bed.' There's a lack of resources for our underfunded or noninsured community. I think that that could be a big help. Unfortunately, that three to five days could really, truly be life or death,' Schaefer said. Nonprofit groups were given until October 20 to apply for grant money through the city of St. Petersburg.
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