June 25, 2025
Through Opioid Settlement Funds, OASAS is accepting funding applications from Part 822 certified providers to offer in-community clinic services outside of their physical address. This initiative is targeted to serve populations who typically have difficulty accessing harm reduction, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, and recovery support services. The purpose of this initiative is to connect and engage individuals who use substances and are vulnerable or underserved and those who have not been successfully engaged in traditional treatment settings. Service encounters can be provided from a variety of settings in the community (e.g., social service agencies, hospitals, local jails, shelters, parks, and other public areas with high substance use activity). Clinics will develop unique strategies to engage and retain individuals in treatment by creating an infrastructure that promotes consumer participation and program sustainability. For more information, please visit Request for Applications: (RFA) SETT-25006 | Office of Addiction Services and Supports.
Funding Available
$8.4M is available for fourteen (14) 24-month awards: one award in each Economic Development Region (EDR) outside of New York City and one in each of the five (5) boroughs in New York City. The maximum award will be $600,000 per award or $300,000 for a 12-month period.
Contingent on the availability of funds and the performance of the providers, NYS OASAS reserves the right to extend this award for up to three additional years.
Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants are providers who meet all of the following criteria:
- Are a Local Governmental Unit (LGU) or a Non-Profit Voluntary Agency
- Are an existing NYS OASAS Part 822 with a telehealth designation operating in the EDR in which the applicant plans to provide services on the Application Submission Due Date
- Providers must be pre-qualified in the State Financial System (SFS) on the Application Submission Due Date.
Application Deadline
August 1, 2025, 4:00 PM
All inquiries: OASAS.sm.Grants@oasas.ny.gov
Thank you,
Communications Department
NYS Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS)
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See attached for an interesting article from The New England Journal of Medicine entitled “The Health Equity, Medical, and Scientific Costs of Dismantling DEI“, June 21, 2025.
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A new nonpartisan report released Monday night from the Joint Committee on Taxation found that the Senate’s tax package would cost about $400 billion more than the House’s in an apples-to-apples comparison. This number doesn’t include a House-brokered deal on the state and local tax deduction — which is critical to winning over a handful of blue-state House Republicans.
Why does this matter? Earlier this year, Speaker Mike Johnson and House conservatives agreed that $4 trillion in tax cuts could be enacted as long as they can find $1.5 trillion in spending cuts (of course, this is only binding in the House). Some House Republicans are making it clear that the our-way-or-the-higway approach could cause delay, especially conservatives who are adamant about not accepting a Senate product that adds more to the national debt.
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(Politico, 6/25) With President Donald Trump’s July 4 deadline drawing near, Senate Majority Leader John Thune told our Jordain Carney Tuesday night he believes the Senate is “on a path” to start voting on the megabill Friday.
But he’s got several fires to put out first. For one, he’s under immense pressure to water down the Medicaid provisions the Senate GOP is counting on for hundreds of billions of dollars worth of savings.
Speaker Mike Johnson is warning in private that Senate Republicans could cost House Republicans their majority next year if they try to push through the deep Medicaid cuts in the current Senate version, three people granted anonymity to describe the matter told our Meredith Lee Hill.
That comes as Sen. Thom Tillis cautions GOP senators that those same cutbacks could become a political albatross for Republicans just as the Affordable Care Act was for Democrats.
GOP leaders are trying to ease concerns by preparing to include a fund to help rural hospitals that could be harmed by the reductions, even as Thune insisted Tuesday “we like where we are.” Sen. Susan Collins, who’s been pushing for the fund, said while that “helps lessen the impact,” she remains “concerned about the changes in the funding for Medicaid in general.”
The other drama hanging over the bill are several imminent, critical rulings from Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough. Several committees that already have rulings in hand are due to release revised text as soon as this morning, a person familiar with the plans told Jordain. And Republicans could know as soon as today whether MacDonough will clear major parts of their tax package.
As of late Tuesday, the parliamentarian had not yet ruled on provisions linked to the so-called current policy baseline, an accounting maneuver that zeroes out the costs of $3.8 trillion of expiring tax cuts, two people granted anonymity to disclose the private discussions told Jordain.
Make no mistake: Adverse rulings could send Republicans back to the drawing board on making their tax plan permanent, or otherwise force them to go nuclear and override or ignore MacDonough altogether. There’s uncertainty from all sides about how that would play out, given the gambit has never been tried before with tax legislation.
This much is already clear: With the tax package in flux and Medicaid savings under threat, GOP leaders have a major math problem on their hands, as Jordain, Meredith and Benjamin report. And House fiscal hawks are watching to see, regardless of the accounting method, whether the Senate sticks to the budget deal they agreed to with Johnson earlier this year.