The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), last week terminated roughly $117 million in Covid-era grants and funding for Oregon Health Authority programs. The impact will be felt immediately in all nine federally recognized Tribal communities and every county in Oregon.
The sudden loss of the funding, a year or more before some of the…
