Helios Alliance Partners To Expand Opioid Settlement Spending

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and The Helios Alliance announced a collaboration to expand Project RenewAL statewide. This initiative will assist cities and counties across Alabama in spending their opioid settlement resources, continuing the data-driven, grassroots approach that Marshall has promoted since the first settlement funds arrived in the state. In Mobile and Mobile County, the Helios Alliance developed and implemented a National Opioid Abatement simulation platform, a State of Alabama platform and, most recently, Project Persevere, a community-wide initiative uniting 16 organizations across the full spectrum of opioid response. Preliminary data from the City of Mobile show results continuing to surpass expectations. The alliance will now extend that expertise statewide, beginning with a collaborative statewide baseline assessment with the Attorney General’s Office and the Alabama League of Municipalities. Under Marshall’s leadership, Alabama has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in opioid settlement funds for the state’s cities, counties and communities.