The Ohio Attorney General’s Office is accepting CY2026 Opioid Remediation Grant applications to expand substance-use-disorder and opioid-use-disorder treatment and recovery support for people incarcerated in Ohio county jails and qualifying community-based correctional facilities (CBCFs). The Attorney General has made $20 million available for CY2026.
Funding: County sheriffs in counties with populations of 50,000 or more may request up to $200,000; sheriffs in counties below 50,000 may request up to $150,000. In addition, any county operating a jail or CBCF may apply for up to $50,000 for medications and supplies for inmates experiencing opioid withdrawal. Funding may support a full-time, part-time, or contracted Addiction Services Coordinator and other new jail-related opioid-remediation programming. Grant funds may not supplant existing addiction-services spending.
Eligibility: New applicants include county jails and CBCFs with support from the county or county sheriff where the CBCF is based. CY2025 Opioid Remediation Grant recipients may reapply for continued support, subject to the program’s repeat-applicant timing and prior-funds-expenditure requirements. CBCFs must provide a signed letter of support from the county sheriff or another leading elected county official, and the award MOU must also be co-signed by that official.
Allowable costs: new employee salary and benefits; new contracted services related to OUD; new medication and supply costs related to OUD or opioid withdrawal; and other qualifying programmatic expenses directly related to substance-abuse remediation. Nonqualifying costs include administrative expenses, remodeling inmate treatment rooms, and costs not directly related to substance-abuse remediation. The application states that grant funds cannot replace pre-existing addiction-services spending.
Application requirements: use the current CY2026 application; provide organization, head-of-organization, and primary-contact information; provide an OhioPays Supplier ID configured for EFT; answer project and repeat-applicant questions as applicable; include the required county support documentation for CBCFs; describe the proposed project; provide an itemized 12-month project budget with appropriate bid estimates; and complete the organization authorization and certification. Successful applicants must execute a grant agreement/MOU with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. The Attorney General’s forms directory also lists the current Budget Worksheet Template and Opioid Remediation Grant Q&A alongside the application.
Deadline and submission: CY2026 applications are accepted through December 1, 2026. The controlling application does not publish a deadline clock time or time zone, so Atlas does not infer one. Submit the completed application and accompanying attachments by email to Mary Lynn Plageman at JailGrants@OhioAGO.gov. Contact: Mary Lynn Plageman, Ohio Attorney General’s Office, 30 E. Broad St., 17th Floor, Columbus, OH 43215; MaryLynn.Plageman@OhioAGO.gov.
Match/cost share: no mandatory non-Federal match or cost-share requirement is stated in the current CY2026 application materials reviewed. Applicants remain responsible for satisfying all program conditions and for avoiding supplantation.
Atlas assessment: Atlas Opportunity Score 93/100. N9+ Fit Score 52/100 conditional. A defensible N9+ role could exist only inside an applicant-controlled jail treatment or withdrawal-care model where remote physical examination directly supports clinical assessment or access and the cost is accepted as an allowable new opioid-remediation expense; the grant does not expressly prioritize telehealth or connected-exam technology. Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare is not the required award recipient: a service provider may assist an authorized sheriff’s office/county jail with application preparation or submission, but the county sheriff must sign the award MOU. Any vendor role therefore requires an eligible county/CBCF-led project and verified cost allowability.