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Vital Strategies is offering matching funds for opioid settlement dollars- the RFP is now open and the applications are due by June 30, 2025. Vital Strategies discussed the proposal during the last opioid summit and now the matching RFP is open. The full details of...

The Wisconsin Counties Association held a virtual WCA Opioid Abatement Summit on March 28, 2025. This event was an opportunity for counties and municipalities to gather virtually to discuss how to work together to maximize abatement efforts. NOTE: This event was open...

Forward Analytics, along with the Wisconsin Counties Association, has prepared this opioid payment tool, utilizing data derived from settlement value calculations prepared by PMA Securities in 2024 and currently posted. Note: The visual and all information presented...

Starting February 1, 2025, Wisconsin will launch a new initiative to provide housing support services to Wisconsin Medicaid members experiencing housing insecurity who are also affected by substance use or mental health conditions. Wisconsin is one of the first states...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is required to required to file quarterly reports with the Joint Committee on Finance on their progress investing the opioid settlement funds allocated to the state. On September 30, 20204, DHS submitted their Fiscal Year...

On May 7, 2024, the Joint Finance Committee reworked the Evers administration’s $36 million plan for opioid settlement funds in the upcoming fiscal year to send more money to capital projects, medication assisted treatment and law enforcement, among other things. In...

The 71 counties and 16 municipalities participating in the settlements with the various defendants in the opioid litigation were required under Wis. Stat. sec. 165.12(4)(c) to submit a report of receipts and expenditures annually by May 1. Please note that the...

KFF Health News recently published a database that lets you look up how much settlement money your state, county, or city has received so far and expects in the future. You can watch a short video here on how it works here. We also held a webinar to teach local...

In order to continue the conversation on opioid abatement efforts, the WCA Ad Hoc Task Force on Opioid Abatement Strategies held their 4th Opioid Abatement Summit on March 20, 2024 in Wisconsin Rapids at Hotel Mead. See photos from the event here. For questions,...

Building on a strong history of collaboration, including the National City-County Task Force on Opioids, NACo and the National League of Cities examined preliminary data on the distribution of opioid settlement dollars across cities, counties and states. This brief...