Six townhomes in Lakewood, CO are designed to house whole families for a year of treatment and family therapy, with the aim of keeping children out of foster care while a parent recovers. The first family is expected in summer 2026.

64 community interviews told six rural Colorado counties what to fund, and the resulting plan won a $1.2 million award on two part-time facilitator salaries.

124 employers across 25 Colorado counties signed on to a recovery-friendly certification, built on a $500,000 opioid settlement infrastructure award.

231 people in four rural Colorado counties applied for therapy scholarships that pay $125 a session and ask for no diagnosis and no proof of a problem.

Five cohorts drew trainees from 13 Kansas counties, preparing community members to work as community health workers with the mental health and addiction skills other courses leave out.

Danville and Pittsylvania County, VA run a five-phase treatment court on $209,000 a year, using the court, probation and clinic capacity they already had.

Six settlement-funded peer staff, four direct-service peers plus a partially funded lead and supervisor, work inside Maryland's public defender offices, moving clients from jail into vetted treatment under attorney-client privilege.

54 Virginia emergency departments now hand patients a free naloxone kit at discharge, with settlement funds covering the one cost no payer reimburses.

A $199,929 grant surveyed about 1,480 Sedgwick County physicians, residents, and students on what blocks addiction care, built the training they named, and opened Wichita's first addiction fellowship.

99% of referred children have an adverse experience. Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas is using a $95,000 state settlement award to expand a proven mentoring model into College Station, TX.

227 justice-involved people in New Hampshire got peer support in 2025 from staff who had lived recovery and incarceration, on $287K a year in settlement funds.

Western Colorado University pays tuition for 6 to 8 graduate fellows a year to run prevention projects in Gunnison County, CO, on a $216,600 settlement award.

80% of participants in a rural northwest Kansas jail class were still in recovery a year later, on $500,000 in opioid settlement awards across two cycles.

Santa Clara County, CA puts every internal request for its $89M in opioid settlement funds through a grant-style review, tracked in one shared system.

Sacramento County, CA asked residents where to spend, ran its own gap analysis, and funded ten programs through a competitive bid. Its third-year settlement payment was $1.86M.

A free Arkansas app walks bystanders through naloxone in English, Spanish, and Marshallese and logs the save, built for $296,000 and $8,750 a year to run.

Pulaski County, AR shares one overdose team with five small police agencies, pairing a source investigator with a peer, on a $369,824 settlement award.

A walk-in clinic in Burlington, VT reached 170 new patients in year two, more than triple its target, on $150,000 a year to each of the two partner agencies.

In Hot Springs, AR, a peer specialist and a police investigator visit overdose survivors together, reaching people in the hours when they are most open to help.

Peer mentors in Walker County, AL logged 2,498 service visits in 2025 at a walk-in recovery center that runs on a $150K settlement award, no appointment needed.