INDIANAPOLIS — Seventeen awardees for the Opioid Settlement Community Grant were recently announced. Through this grant program, Marion County Coroner’s Office and the Office of Public Health & Safety will distribute $800,000 to organizations for treatment, prevention, recovery, harm reduction, youth and community education, and efforts to reduce barriers to access services across Marion County.
Projects include:
• Step Up, Inc. will provide essential harm reduction and support services to Queer Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) communities of color.
• We Bloom, Inc. will provide a valuable resource in the form of a Peer Recovery Coach to aid individuals residing in Marion County.
• Aspire Indiana Health is utilizing funds awarded to expand their Mobile Clinic program to send licensed clinicians into the field to administer behavioral health and wound care to Marion County’s unsheltered community. The Mobile Clinic will operate three days a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday operating in zip codes 46201, 46202, 46203, 46204, 46218, 46221, and 46225.
In addition, grant recipients include: Dove Recovery House for Women, Overdose Lifeline, Inc., The Hope Academy, Inc., The Bachelors of Arts, Children’s Bureau, Inc. Firefly Children & Family Alliance, A Better Way Outreach, Inc. Education Destination, Inc., Damien Center, Inc., Community Health Network Foundation, Inc., Public Advocates for Community Re-Entry (PACE), Gennesaret Free Clinics, and The Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County.