Opioid Settlement Funds

The City of Albuquerque Recommends the Seven Following Uses of Funding

1. Leveraging The Sobering Center: Expand medical support, harm reduction, in-patient treatment, and overdose prevention services to reduce hospital strain.
   • First Responder Receiving Area, Medical Sobering and Respite
   • Cumulative 26K patients.
2. Community-Based Treatment Access & Quality: Increase access to community-based treatment with a focus on integrated, person-centered care. Launch a Community-Oriented Recovery (COR) Pilot Program and expand Albuquerque Fire and Rescue’s Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) program.
3. Recovery Housing: Expand recovery housing options for individuals in intensive outpatient programs.
4. Peer Support Expansion: Increase peer support roles across the City and bolster harm reduction and recovery programs.
5. Naloxone Access Expansion: Deploying naloxone to all first responder vehicles and distributing naloxone kits to community-based organizations that work with vulnerable populations.
   • Expanding Albuquerque Fire Rescue training.
6. Comprehensive Education: Comprehensive education or substance abuse prevention, harm reduction, and recovery; including a Restorative Justice Program, intergenerational programming at multigenerational centers, and culturally relevant opioid prevention and tribal outreach.
   • Office of Native American Affairs expanded education outreach.
7. Connecting Disconnected Youth: Engagement of disconnected youth (ages 16-24) who are not in education or employment. Expansion if SBVIP and an Opportunity Youth Reengagement Pilot Program.
   • 500 youth at multigenerational centers
   • The Restorative Justice program through Youth and Family Services saw a reduction in suspensions at John Adams Middle School from 353 to 102 suspension days.
   • 12,800 opportunity youth have been identified