Kent County receives $750K federal grant for jail substance treatment and reentry program

Continuity of care: jail-based moud to strengthen recovery and reentry in Kent County - the county of kent, Michigan, through the Kent County sheriff's office, will continue a five-year project expanding access to fda-approved medications for opioid use disorder (moud), psychosocial treatment, overdose prevention, and recovery support for adults incarcerated at the Kent County correctional facility who are within four months of release, serving a county of more than 650,000 residents where 73% of the 526 drug-overdose deaths recorded between 2020 and 2025 involved opioids. The project will serve 575 unduplicated participants annually and 2,875 over five years, addressing co-occurring substance use or mental health disorders, prior overdose, housing instability, and repeated criminal-justice involvement among eligible adults 18 and older. Strategies include validated screening, individualized treatment planning, continuation or initiation of methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone, counseling, peer support, telehealth, transportation and housing navigation, and documented warm handoffs to community care. Objectives include ensuring 90% complete validated screening and diagnostic assessment, 80% of clinically eligible participants begin or continue moud within 72 hours, 90% of released participants receive overdose-reversal medication and education, 75% have an appointment within seven days, and 60% complete a verified warm handoff, with required performance data at least 95% complete and timely.