AROR Admin of the Opioid Settlement funds

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1. The Partnership seeks a shared framework for disbursing opioid abatement funds. Abatement efforts will be most effective if Arkansas governments unite and work cooperatively together, as they have in opioid litigation, on behalf of the people. 2. The Partnership should seek to use limited funds to supplement and expand existing public and private abatement efforts and funding, rather than supplanting or duplicating existing abatement efforts and funding. 3. The Partnership should fund public and private evidence -based projects, and funded projects should be evaluated for effectiveness moving forward, with ongoing funding contingent on demonstrated effectiveness as appropriate. 4. The Partnership should fund public and private programs and strategies that abate the opioid epidemic at the community and family levels. 5. The Partnership should support diversion from arrest/incarceration and should support access to peer support and treatment in correctional settings. 6. The Partnership should fund anti -stigma programs and involve communities in education and prevention efforts. 7. Priority should be given to evidence -based and evidence -informed prevention, treatment, recovery, or harm reduction programs, services, supports, and resources. 8. The Partnership should ensure diversity of representation and funding, including racial and geographic diversity, including people with lived experience, and including less populated and geographically isolated communities. 9. The Partnership will operate with all reasonable transparency. Additionally, eight guidelines inform individuals and organizations (including counties and cities) who submit proposals and seek funding to abate the opioid epidemic. Like the guiding principles for ARORP, each guideline for applicants is thoughtful and important: 1. A proposal submitted by any person or entity other than the Partnership Director shall include a letter or letters of support signed by the county judge of each county to be served by the proposal, and the mayor of each first-class city to be served by the proposal. It is the applicant's responsibility to obtain the necessary signatures of county and city support. 2. A proposal should demonstrate evidence -based strategies to abate the opioid epidemic in Arkansas, in a manner consistent with approved purposes as defined in the Arkansas Opioids MOU, settlement agreements, and court orders approving settlements and bankruptcies. 3. A proposal should address the guiding principles of the Partnership outlined above, with honest and candid analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the proposal considering the guiding principles. 4. A proposal should be designed to treat, prevent, and reduce opioid use disorder and the misuse of opioids or otherwise abate or remediate the opioid epidemic. Each proposal should discuss and demonstrate this nexus.