Governor Mike DeWine announced the new director of the OneOhio Foundation, tasked with handling much of the money received from lawsuit settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors.
CLEVELAND — Governor Mike DeWine announced Monday that Alisha Nelson will take over as executive director of the OneOhio Foundation.The OneOhio Foundation formed a little more than a year ago and recently converted to a private nonprofit. It has been tasked with handling and distributing much of the money received from lawsuit settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors.
"It’s a nice opportunity to advance on our thinking on this," Matia explained."On the other hand, we're looking to fund evidence-based programs. This is not going to be cotton candy for people in recovery and acupuncture." However, over the first year of its existence, the OneOhio Foundation faced lawsuits over transparency and making records public. It was told by the Ohio Supreme Court it had to comply and responded by putting an amendment in the Ohio budget turning itself into a private nonprofit.
"They say they want to free themselves of politics, however, the board is all politicians," he said."The money can be put to good use, and the impacted population needs to be welcomed to the table and have a voice at the table. It's their money. This money is literally paid as compensation for deaths, and the people who lost loved ones have no representation for how the money is spent.
"When I got appointed to this, I thought I was going to have a front-row seat at the wasting of the opioid money like the tobacco money went," Matia said. Going forward, Hochadel admits there's a lot to be done across the state to address opioid addiction, and he hopes this grant process will expose regions to new ideas that can be shared across the state.
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