Funding for Recovery Engagement and Expansion (FREE)

Gavin Posey
502.326.2583, Ext. 210
gposey@healthy-ky.org

This opportunity offers funding to connect individuals in Kentucky to substance use treatment services and recovery supports and/or to reduce the stigma around accessing life-saving interventions.

This grant will fund projects that:

• Utilize a trauma-and-resilience-informed care approach
• Provide evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery support services
• Strengthen prevention, treatment, and recovery infrastructure through collaborative projects centering on the overdose epidemic
• Are housed within organizations that have been in operation no less than 2 years
• Are located in the state of Kentucky

Eligible activities include, but are not limited to:

• Conducting outreach and relationship building
• Reducing stigma through marketing, storytelling, or community events
• Building coalitions among service providers
• Increasing public knowledge of and reducing stigma toward:
  • Overdose prevention and life-saving interventions
  • Evidence-based treatment and recovery supports, including FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD)
  • Multiple paths to recovery

Eligible applicants are organizations in Kentucky that have been in operation at least 2 years.

Award amount: $50,000
Project period: 12 months (November 1, 2026, to September 30, 2027)
Estimated number of awards: 10

Grantees will also be required to participate in monthly collaborative workshops with staff and other grant recipients.

A link to the application form is available on the program website.

Email the completed application to gposey@healthy-ky.org.