Saturday, June 7, 2025
6/7/2025
Wisconsin State Opioid Response Grant - The Wisconsin State Opioid Response (SOR) will focus on utilizing a Chronic Care Model to expand access to evidence-based opioid and stimulant use disorder treatment and recovery services, advance opioid prevention, and reduce opioid and stimulant-related overdose deaths. Since the early 2000s, Wisconsin has experienced a surge in opioid misuse and its related harmful consequences. Since the start of this increase, the age-adjusted death rate from opioid overdose has increased over fivefold. Over the last decade alone, the number of opioid-related deaths in Wisconsin has nearly doubled and from 2014-2018 the percent of overdose deaths where methamphetamine was involved has doubled from 5.1 percent 10.6 percent. A needs assessment will be updated to pinpoint communities in high need of prevention, treatment, and recovery services related to opioid and stimulant use disorders for State Opioid Response (SOR) funding. Specifically, high need areas will be identified using county-level data in the following areas: neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS); county-authorized opioid treatment admissions; opioid-related hospitalizations; opioid-related deaths; cases of opioid use disorder among Medicaid members; stimulant-related hospitalizations and deaths; areas experiencing higher rates of long-term unemployment; and county population metrics. Wisconsin made great strides in developing infrastructure, increasing the number of data waived providers and expanding medication assisted treatment (MAT) to underserved areas utilizing the FFY 2019-2020 State Opioid Response grant. Unfortunately, the need for services to treat opioid and stimulant use disorders still outweighs the available resources and not all individuals have access to multiple forms of MAT or the full continuum of care. Wisconsin is home to 5.5 million people, with an estimated 172,000 opioid misusers and 41,000 persons needing but not receiving opioid treatment. With FFY 2021-2022 SOR funding, Wisconsin aims to expand the work begun through the FFY 2019-2020 State Opioid Response grant by increasing the number of people receiving evidence-based opioid use disorder treatment and recovery supports by 2,700 individuals over the course of the two-year funding period and expand services to include individuals needing stimulant use disorder treatment. The State of Wisconsin, Department of Health Services SOR project will focus on the reduction of opioid and stimulant-related deaths and other adverse events through treatment and recovery interventions within high need Wisconsin communities by implementing the following principal programs: - Hospital, community-based and other recovery coaches with lived addiction experience to provide outreach to persons experiencing opioid overdose or stimulant addiction. - Add, increase or expand evidence-based opioid treatment capacity that includes medication assisted treatment (MAT), behavioral health counseling, recovery supports, and provides treatment funds for uninsured or under-insured persons and rural, underserved areas of the state, including within tribal communities. - Addiction/Recovery Resource Helpline. - Expand opioid prevention efforts, including overdose prevention by implementing awareness raising campaigns, naloxone training, and providing naloxone to public health departments. - Training in evidence-based approaches for community direct service workers.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).