City of Deerfield Beach
Implementation Plans
FY 2024-2025 Plan
The City of Deerfield Beach has developed an implementation plan for the allocation and utilization of opioid settlement funds, adhering to the stipulations of Schedules A and B of the opioid settlement. The plan outlines the distribution of funds across various areas of focus, including prevention programs, treatment and recovery support, public awareness campaigns, and life safety training for personnel. Notably, the plan allocates $0 to Schedule A initiatives, focusing instead on Schedule B areas with a total funding of $94,618. This funding will support a public awareness campaign ($67,868) and life safety training for personnel ($26,750), with specific allocations for hiring, capital outlays, and vehicle purchases detailed for each area.
The implementation timeline spans from Q1 to Q4 2024, beginning with gathering information and contracting for the public awareness campaign, followed by purchasing and modifying a high-visibility vehicle, and concluding with the full implementation and evaluation of all funded programs. The plan emphasizes regular monitoring and evaluation to ensure the effectiveness of the funded programs, with progress reports to be submitted to the oversight committee. This comprehensive approach aims to leverage the opioid settlement funds to significantly reduce the impact of the opioid crisis in Deerfield Beach.
By investing strategically in prevention, treatment, recovery, public awareness, and law enforcement support, the city seeks to address the opioid misuse among youth and the community at large, enhance the response capabilities of personnel to opioid overdoses, and increase public awareness about the dangers of opioid misuse and available resources. The justification for this summarization lies in its focus on the key components of the implementation plan—funding allocation, specific initiatives, implementation timeline, and the overarching goal of mitigating the opioid crisis in the community.