TO: Chair and Members of the OSAC
FROM: Jeffrey L. Oris, CEcD, Assistant City Manager
DATE: July 13, 2026
Title
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION - GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE WORKFORCE AND JOB ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS AT RISK OF OR WITH OPIOID USE DISORDER AND OTHER CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
The Committee is asked to review the purposes of this item and to formulate a recommendation as to process and parameters of a potential grant program to outside organizations to provide workforce and job assistance programs for persons at risk or with OUD and other co-occurring disorders
Background:
As the OSAC has previously discussed this program as explained in the Delray Beach Drug Task Force recommendations to the OSAC. The City Commission has allocated $135,000 in opioid settlement funds for the program and asks the OSAC to recommend a process to select organizations to fund and to provide a recommendation for parameters and goals of the grant program.