Requests for Applications for Funding

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Chatham County is currently requesting applications for the following strategies. Requests for applications for other approved strategies may be released in the future depending on funding availability. Each award amount is based on available funds. Multi-year applicants may need to submit continuation applications and updated budgets, and funds will be disbursed as reimbursements for provided services. Learn more by watching this video.

Interested organizations must submit their funding application to chathamopioidsettlement@chathamcountync.gov by 5 P.M. on May 30, 2025.

Chatham County is requesting applications for the following strategies. Applications are available below.

Early Intervention (up to $40,000 per year for up to three years)
- Programs, services, or training to encourage early identification and intervention for children or adolescents who may be struggling with problematic use of drugs or mental health conditions, including Youth Mental Health First Aid, peer-based programs, or similar approaches. Training programs that target parents, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health or human services professionals, or others in contact with children or adolescents.
- Scoring Rubric

Evidence-Based Addiction Treatment (up to $110,000 per year for up to three years):
- Treatment for opioid use disorder that helps cover costs like co-pays, medications, and lab work for Chatham residents
- Scoring Rubric

Please complete this RFA Budget worksheet and submit it with your application. Q+A sessions on the RFA process will be held on May 7 from 9 -10 A.M. and on May 14 from 6 - 7 P.M . Questions may also be submitted to chathamopioidsettlement@chathamcountync.gov.

Background

The Chatham County Board of Commissioners approves an annual funding plan prior to the start of each fiscal year taking into account recommendations from the Sheriff’s Prevention Partnership on Controlled Substances (SPPCS).

Based on the approved funding plan, Opioid Settlement funds may be made available to private non-profit organizations or businesses to carry out work related to an approved strategy to address the overdose crisis, including recovery support services, recovery housing support, and naloxone distribution.

For external organizations to request this funding, the following process will be followed:

1. Requests for Applications (RFA) for Funding

When funds are available for organizations to carry out work related to one of the approved strategies, an announcement will be posted on this webpage and shared with potential applicants. The announcement will include instructions on how to apply for funding along with the amount of funding available, the specified strategy, the application, deadlines, and any additional details about eligible proposals.

2. Application Review Process

Chatham County Public Health Department staff will screen all applications to ensure they are complete (i.e., they include all the required information and documentation), that they are eligible, and that they have complied with basic RFA requirements. Incomplete and/or ineligible applications will not be reviewed until any issues are resolved. Chatham County Public Health Department County may follow up with an applicant for any clarifications or to request required information that is missing.

A review committee from the SPPCS will score each application using the established scoring criteria. Any potential reviewers with a conflict of interest or who are affiliated with an organization applying for funds from the specified strategy will not be included on the review committee.

At their option, the review committee may request additional information from any or all applicants for the purpose of clarification or to amplify the materials presented in any part of the application. However, agencies and organizations are cautioned that reviewers are not required to request clarification. Therefore, all applications should be complete and reflect the most favorable terms available from the agency or organization.

The review committee will make a recommendation to the SPPCS Coordinating Committee, which will make the final determination for allocating funds.

When considering proposals and recommendations to approve, the Coordinating Committee will meet with members of the application review committee and lean on the written recommendation and the expertise provided by those committee members on funded strategies. The Coordinating Committee may request additional information or clarification from the application review committee to help make their determination. If there are discrepancies between the recommendations from the application review committee and final decision of the Coordinating Committee, the Coordinating Committee will communicate their rationale to the application review committee. If any member of the committees or advisory groups are applying for Opioid Settlement funds, they will abstain from the application review process.

The Coordinating Committee includes representation from each subcommittee, as well as agency leads for Chatham County Sheriff’s Office, Chatham County Public Health Department, Chatham Drug Free, Chatham County Schools, Vaya Health, and Chatham County Diversion and Advocacy Programs. These agencies are represented because they have a key role in addressing the opioid crisis in Chatham.

3. Notification to Applicants