Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant in the amount of $50,000 from the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy and Programs, and to appropriate the total amount of the grant from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Specialized Docket of the Franklin County Municipal Court. This grant will fund a contract with Ohio Guidestone to provide peer mentors to the Helping Achieve Recovery Together (h.a.r.t), the opiate specific specialized docket.
Emergency Legislation is requested so that the grant funds can be used as close to the start date of June 1 as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT
$50,000.00 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the Franklin County Office of Justice Policy and Programs to provide peer mentors to Helping Achieve Recovery Together (h.a.r.t), the opiate specific specialized docket; to appropriate $50,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the city's best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court receive support to provide peer mentorship to participants in the h.a.r.t. specialized docket. Helping Achieve Recovery Together, h.a.r.t., the opiate specific Specialized Docket at the Franklin County Municipal Court, does not have peer support for participants prior to ATP State fund enrollment. This grant will fill the gap between Specialized Docket referral and ATP. This is the critical time for engagement in recovery and linkage to community treatment. It fills the gap at the time participants are transitioning from jail to treatment, when due to their sobriety in jail and ensuing reduced tolerance they ar...
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