ONEOHIO RECOVERY FOUNDATION AWARDS $7.36 MILLION FOR 29 LOCAL PROJECTS TO ADVANCE PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND RECOVERY IN REGION 14

COLUMBUS, OH – Twenty-nine projects focused on saving lives, preventing substance use disorder, expanding access to treatment, supporting recovery, and strengthening community resilience in Butler, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Greene, Madison and Warren counties have been awarded a combined $7.36 million through the OneOhio Recovery Foundation's Regional Grant Cycle 2. The 29 awards support locally driven, evidence-informed work that responds to the local impacts of substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health conditions, putting opioid settlement dollars to work where they can make a meaningful difference. 

Ohio's opioid settlement dollars are most powerful when they reach the organizations and communities closest to the work of prevention, treatment and recovery, said Alisha Nelson, Executive Director of the OneOhio Recovery Foundation. 

“People and families need different kinds of support at different points in their lives,” Nelson said. “These grants reflect that reality by investing in prevention, crisis response, treatment and recovery services that can help more people find care and build lasting stability.” 

Local communities know their own needs. These new awards reflect priorities identified by the Region Board and local partners engaged in services across Butler, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Greene, Madison, and Warren counties, said Pat Moeller, OneOhio Region 14 Board Chair. 

“The funding addresses many of the challenges our communities face every day, including prevention, crisis response, and connections to recovery services. The grants will give trusted local providers more resources to respond to the community challenges and to help residents move from immediate need toward long-term stability,” Moeller said.  

The awards are the result of OneOhio’s thorough grant review process, made possible by the dedication of volunteers serving on the Region 14 Grant Review Committee, led by Beau Thompson. 

“I’m grateful to everyone who served alongside me on the Region 14 Grant Review Committee,” said Thompson. “They put in a tremendous amount of time and effort to make sure these dollars are invested wisely and go toward helping people and communities impacted by addiction.” 

In total, Regional Grant Cycle 2 makes up to $45.7 million available across the state. Project funding directly serves people with substance use disorder, including those with co-occurring mental health conditions, as well as family members affected by substance use disorder, according to purposes approved by the OneOhio Memorandum of Understanding. 

Region 14 Grant Awards 

Atrium Medical Center Foundation: $100,000 for the Substance Use Navigator Program at Atrium Medical Center to add two substance use navigators to provide 24/7 consultation, personalized support, and connections to evidence-based treatment and wraparound services for hospital patients. 

Back2Back Ministries, Inc.: $158,000 for Trauma Competent Care (TCC) for Middletown Educators and TCC Services for Students Impacted by Substance Use Disorder to train Central Academy educators in advanced trauma-competent care and to provide social-emotional learning groups and tutoring for students at Central Academy and CBI, reaching 240 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. 

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati: $235,400 for Expanded Substance Misuse Prevention for Clermont County Youth and Teens, which will expand prevention programming at the Wyler Club through education, workforce development, targeted substance use prevention, and facility improvements that strengthen protective factors for youth. 

Butler County Community Health Consortium: $241,000 for Substance Use Prevention & Treatment for Butler County Students and Families, which will create school-based treatment partnerships and care pathways to identify students who use substances, connect them quickly with community treatment and recovery resources, and train school staff. 

Child Focus, Inc.: $355,722 for Solutions to Address Region 14 Behavioral Health Crisis Response Through Behavioral Health Urgent Care & Clinician Recruitment/Retention, to support staffing for behavioral health urgent care and deploy documentation technology that allows clinicians working in homes, communities, and through telehealth to document care where broadband is limited. 

CincySmiles Foundation: $166,100 for The CincySmiles Foundation Peer Recovery Support Program [The CSF PRSP] to integrate peer recovery support into oral health care to help patients stay engaged in treatment, reduce relapse risk, and support long-term recovery. 

Clark County: $51,600 for the Digital Recovery & Workforce Access Lab for Justice-Impacted Individuals, to provide technology, employment tools, and recovery resources to improve stability and reduce relapse and further justice-system involvement. 

Clermont Recovery Center, Inc.: $874,617 for Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Services at the Clermont Crisis Receiving Center to expand timely, person-centered crisis services, reduce unnecessary emergency department and law enforcement involvement, and connect people quickly with treatment and recovery support. 

Clinton County Juvenile Court: $244,877 for Pathway Forward to add a Youth Navigator and high-fidelity wraparound services to connect young people and families with education, intervention, and individualized support. 

Community Behavioral Health, Inc.: $109,000 for a Youth Intensive Outpatient Program to develop an age-appropriate, evidence-based intensive outpatient program for adolescents with substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health conditions. 

Emerge Recovery & Trades Initiative: $120,000 for Emerge Women's Recovery on Wheels to purchase two vans to provide transportation for women in a new 28-person recovery program that combines transitional housing, trauma-informed care, and skilled-trades training. 

Five Rivers Health Centers: $888,941 for Five Rivers Health Centers: Prevention and Treatment Services in a Federally Qualified Health Center - Greene County to train primary care providers, screen patients for substance use disorder, offer on-site medications for opioid use disorder, and provide psychiatric consultation, transportation, interpretation, and medication assistance for uninsured patients. 

Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services: $633,147 for Treatment Access and Comprehensive Services for Multi-System Involved Individuals to identify and engage high-risk people involved with multiple community systems, connect them with treatment, and support long-term recovery and self-sufficiency. 

Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project: $50,000 for Pathways to Stability: Legal Support for Recovery-Impacted Families to provide recovery-focused civil legal services involving record sealing, housing stability, family law, and survivor advocacy in Clark and Greene counties. 

Greene County Educational Service Center: $100,000 for Right Help, Right Time: Expanding HOPE for Children and Families, to expand trauma-informed, two-generational early intervention and family stabilization services for young children and caregivers affected by substance use disorder. 

Greene County Sheriff's Office: $98,326 for Medication Assisted Treatment for Greene County Sheriff's Office Inmates, to provide medication-assisted treatment, counseling, and behavioral therapies for incarcerated people with opioid use disorder. 

Hamilton, OH: $215,963 for Opioid and Paramedicine Support, to create a fire department position to respond to crisis-related calls and to provide mobile crisis and outreach services. 

Her Story, Inc.: $150,000 for Recovery Connections to expand coordinated outpatient services, including community outreach, case management, peer support, recovery wellness programming, and integrated behavioral health care. 

H.O.P.E.-full Pastures Therapeutic Farm: $50,000 for HPTF Animal-Assisted, Trauma-Informed Youth Support for Children Impacted by Substance Use to provide animal-assisted, trauma-informed sessions for children affected by parental substance use disorder to strengthen emotional regulation, resilience, and family stability. 

Hope Spot: $207,000 for Hope Spot Recovery Support Infrastructure Expansion to renovate 2,500 square feet of adjacent leased space to expand peer services, prevention programs, and family programming while increasing overall service capacity. 

McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital Endowment Fund: $200,000 for Improving Outcomes for Rural Patients Through Navigation and Peer Support to provide timely peer support and navigation to treatment for people with substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health conditions, reducing barriers to care and supporting long-term well-being. 

McKinley Hall, Inc.: $784,228 for McKinley Hall Enhanced-Rapid Access to Addiction Medicine Clinic (E-RAAM) to provide 24/7 withdrawal management and treatment for people with substance use and co-occurring disorders, reducing fatal and nonfatal overdoses and unnecessary emergency room use. 

Mental Health Recovery Board Serving Warren and Clinton Counties: $284,220 for Reducing Marijuana-Related Harms on Children from Prenatal Stages Through Adolescence to expand evidence-based prevention, education, and early intervention for parents and young people to reduce high-risk marijuana use and exposure and to support healthy child development. 

Ohio Recovery Housing: $56,750 for Pathways in Practice: Turning Recovery Housing into Recovery Action to equip recovery housing operators with practical tools for individualized recovery planning that promote accountability, stability, and long-term recovery. 

On Our Way Home, Inc.: $175,000 for Expansion of the Peer Recovery Organization (E-PRO) to continue peer recovery support services in Clermont, Clinton, and Warren counties, connect people with existing services, and strengthen the substance use disorder treatment and recovery network. 

OneCity for Recovery, Inc.: $192,834 for Helping Access Recovery, Belonging & Ongoing Resilience (HARBOR) to add a Continuum Care Coordinator to provide hospital-to-community care and peer-supported navigation that builds recovery capital, reduces relapse risk, and removes barriers to stability. 

Project Woman of Springfield and Clark County: $150,001 for Project Woman's SUD/MH Crisis Response Program to identify survivors of gender-based violence who use substances, assist with safety planning, and connect survivors with substance use disorder and mental health services. 

RZP Foundation, Inc.: $137,718 for Recovery Access and Stabilization Initiative to stabilize housing, provide reliable transportation, and expand structured wellness and peer engagement through a Recovery Trail on the organization's 13-acre Recovery Farm. 

University of Cincinnati: $328,253 for Early Intervention at West Chester Hospital to Provide Wrap Around Care for Opioid Use in Butler County to re-establish emergency department-based screening, care connections, and harm reduction services for substance use disorder and infectious diseases at West Chester Hospital. 

Together, these awards will expand school-based prevention, crisis response, treatment and recovery services, improve access to housing and care navigation and strengthen support for children, families and people involved in the criminal legal system across the seven-county region. 

 All grant awards were approved by the OneOhio Board of Directors following a robust, multi-step process designed to ensure local input, integrity, accountability and alignment with OneOhio's approved purposes. The Foundation is working with approved organizations to complete the grant agreement process and move funding into communities across Ohio. Grants are contingent on a fully executed grant agreement. 

For Regional Grant Cycle 2, applicants first submitted Funding Inquiries through the OneOhio Grant Portal. Eligible inquiries were reviewed by Regional Grant Review Committees, and selected applicants were invited to submit Technical Applications. Where applicable, submissions were reviewed by the OneOhio Expert Panel to ensure alignment with evidence and the OneOhio MOU. Successful applications were then reviewed by Foundation staff and the Grant Oversight Committee, with final funding decisions made by the Board of Directors. 

Regional Grant Cycle 2 builds on the Foundation's inaugural grant cycle, which awarded more than $45 million to 245 projects statewide. That first round supported a broad mix of strategies, including youth prevention initiatives, school-based mental health supports, recovery housing, treatment expansion, post-overdose outreach, peer support, supports for children and families affected by substance use disorder and workforce development for the behavioral health field. 

Grant recipients must submit biannual programmatic and financial reports, and the Foundation may request supplemental information or conduct site visits or virtual meetings as needed. These requirements reflect the Foundation's commitment to ensuring that every dollar is used responsibly and produces measurable and lasting impact. 

A complete list of approved grant recipients can be found at OneOhioFoundation.com/GrantAwards. Additional awards may be announced as projects complete the review and approval process. Organizations interested in future funding opportunities should visit OneOhioFoundation.com/Grants and sign up for updates from the Foundation.