Overdose prevention grants and funding

Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP)

CDPHE’s COSSUP grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), improved health outcomes by reducing the impact of opioids, stimulants, and other substances on individuals and communities. Many communities are ill-equipped to serve people with substance use disorder and their families - lacking local substance use disorder treatment providers, recovery resources, and access to naloxone - which creates an undue burden on first responders and local healthcare providers. COSSUP recipients provided diversion programs, recovery support services, substance use disorder treatment services, naloxone for law enforcement, first responders, and individuals receiving services, and educated communities on the proper disposal of medications through Colorado’s Medication Takeback Program.

Past Recipients

• Alden Dimensional Media
• Cardinal Health, Inc.
• Colorado Department of Corrections
• E-Squared Communications Group, dba SE2
• Las Animas-Huerfano Counties District Health Department
• Point Blank Enterprises, Inc
• Region Six Alcohol & Drug Abuse Corp. dba RESADA
• San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center
• Signal Behavioral Health Network

Learn more about COSSUP

• CDPHE Full Project Evaluation Summary (Oct. 2020 to Sept. 2024) (PDF)
  • CDPHE’s Year 1 Evaluation Summary (Sept. 2021 - Sept. 2022) (PDF)
  • CDPHE’s Year 2 Evaluation Summary (Oct. 2022 - Sept. 2023) (PDF)
  • CDPHE’s Year 3 Evaluation Summary (Oct. 2023 - June 2024) (PDF)
• BJA’s COSSUP Resource Center (website)
   

Harm Reduction Grant Fund

During the 2019 legislative session, SB19-008: Substance Use Disorder in the Criminal Justice System passed establishing a Harm Reduction Grant Program within CDPHE. The goal and purpose of the Harm Reduction Grant Program is to fund and support local communities to rethink and expand opportunities to address drug use using a public health and harm reduction approach, rather than through the criminal legal system. The 2022 passage of HB 22-1326 Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention allocated additional funding for a broadened list of eligible entities and expanded allowable uses of the fund.

• Colorado Harm Reduction Organizations and Resources. (webpage)

Past and Present Recipients

• Arapahoe County Public Health
• Boulder County Public Health Department
• Colorado Health Network
• Gunnison County
• Harm Reduction Action Center
• Lakewood Police Department
• Milestone Community Wellness
• Pitkin County Public Health
• Southern Colorado Harm Reduction Association
• Summit County Public Health
• SummitStone Health Partners
• The Yarrow Collective

CDPHE Colorado Coroner Grant opportunity

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Opioid Overdose Prevention Program invites Colorado coroners' offices to apply for grants offered to support coroners as they deal with the opioid crisis in Colorado. This funding provides reimbursement for toxicology testing for suspected overdose deaths.  All Colorado coroner’s and medical examiner’s offices are eligible for funding. You can apply for the Toxicology Support Grant using the Google form.

• OD2A-S Toxicology Support Grant Application. (Google form)

Recipients

• Alamosa County Coroner’s Office
• Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office
• Archuleta County Coroner’s Office
• Baca County Coroner’s Office
• Boulder County Coroner’s Office
• Clear Creek County Coroner’s Office
• City and County of Denver - Office of the Medical Examiner
• Douglas County Coroner’s Office
• El Paso County Coroner’s Office
• Garfield County Coroner’s Office
• Gunnison County Coroner’s Office
• Jefferson County Coroner’s Office
• Larimer County Coroner’s Office
• Las Animas County Coroner’s Office
• Lincoln County Coroner’s Office
• Montezuma County Coroner’s Office
• Montrose County Coroner’s Office
• Morgan County Coroner’s Office
• Ouray County Coroner’s Office
• The Pathology Group (Mesa County)
• Prowers County Coroner’s Office
• Rio Blanco County Coroner’s Office
• Summit County Coroner’s Office
• Weld County Coroner’s Office
   

Overdose Data to Action-States

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Overdose Prevention Program is pleased to announce the awarded grantees for Overdose Data to Action-States for the Harm Reduction and Linkage to Care program. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Overdose Data to Action Program provides funds to enhance evidence-based opioid overdose prevention programming and evidence-informed interventions that have an immediate impact on reducing overdose morbidity and mortality, with a focus on opioids, stimulants, and polysubstance use. Under OD2A-S, recipients are expected to implement required interventions that facilitate access to harm reduction services and linkage to and retention in care.

Recipients for Linkage to Care

• Adams County Health Department
• Denver Health and Hospital Authority
• Recovery Cafe Longmont
• Serenity Recovery Connection

Recipients for Harm Reduction  

• Boulder County Public Health
• Jefferson County Public Health
• La Plata County Public Health Department
• Mesa County Public Health
• North Colorado Health Alliance
• San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center (SLV AHEC)

Learn more about OD2A Overdose Data to Action

• Overdose Data to Action (CDC website)