Inspiring and accelerating action to end the opioid crisis.
FORE is a national grantmaking foundation committed to convening and supporting partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions.
Urban Institute to Assess Impact of Medicaid on Access to Opioid Use Disorder Medications
FORE Announces a Request for Proposals to Enhance Community-Driven Responses to Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Mortality
Webinar: Engaging Pharmacists in Improving Treatment Outcomes for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder (5/28/2025)
New Videos Highlight Innovative Strategies for Improving Health Outcomes for Pregnant and Parenting Patients With OUD
FORE’s 2024 Impact Report Celebrates the Power of Partnership
New Videos Highlight Youth-Focused, Community-Led Prevention Strategies
FORE Awards $2.1 Million to Four Organizations Pursuing Innovative Approaches to Prevention, Treatment, and Workforce Development
FORE Awards Grant to Tradeoffs to Expand Reporting on the Opioid and Overdose Crisis
Webinar: Medicaid’s Ongoing Critical Role in the U.S. Response to the Opioid and Overdose Crisis (3/26/2025)
Based in Martinsburg, West Virginia, The Martinsburg Initiative (TMI) collaborates with law enforcement officers, schools, health care providers, and other community organizations to provide substance use #prevention programs and to mitigate adverse childhood experiences. The goal is to promote healthy development and resilience among youth and their families. FORE funding has enabled the organization to expand efforts throughout Berkeley County, by training teachers to recognize the signs and symptoms of #trauma, foster resilience, and connect students with school-based social workers.
“We could have this class every week and have a full class,” says Jennifer Burroughs, BSW, LSW, lead social worker with TMI. “We always have a waiting list. They tell me what they learned in school to be an educator does not apply to a child who has experienced trauma, and they have shared that it has changed their perception of education, and they have more job satisfaction because of it.”
A couple weeks ago at the @grantmakersinhealth Annual Conference, FORE President Dr. Karen A. Scott was joined by West Virginia First Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Board for a timely discussion on how philanthropy can leverage #opioid settlement funds for maximum impact, sharing challenges and ideas for partnerships across different foundations.
Today, #FOREgrantee @asap_prevention travelled from Alabama to NYC to deliver their Faith-Based Support Specialist (FBSS) training, which equips faith leaders across the country with the tools and resources needed to help their congregation members when they come to them for help with substance misuse. Special thank you to @almentalhealth Commissioner Kimberly Boswell and @nys_oasas Commissioner @dr_chinazo for providing opening remarks!
#FathersDay is a special day for many families, but it’s especially poignant for dads who have been given a second chance to build a strong bond with their children. Among them are men whose drug addiction has separated them from their kids.
After #FOREgrantee Thomas Gooch entered recovery, he wanted to help other men in his community find the stability they need to repair relationships with their families. His residential facility, My Father’s House in Nashville, TN, offers temporary housing, job training, connections to treatment, and other supports to men on all paths to recovery that are getting back on their feet. For many, the program offers a sense of safety and community.
With funding from FORE, Gooch created a respite program for men with #opioid use disorder who are in danger of experiencing an #overdose because of the obstacles they face accessing residential treatment programs. For the uninsured, the wait for an open bed in a local safety-net facility can extend over weeks if not months. “You can’t just walk in and say I want to get help,” Gooch says.
His respite program offers men safe housing, meals, and personal care items as they await treatment. Peer recovery supports are available on site 24 hours a day.
What if your pharmacy didn’t stock or dispense the life-saving drug you need?
To help pharmacists understand the key role they play in preventing overdose deaths, faculty from the @universityofhouston, the @university_texas_at_austin, and the @universitysoutherncalifornia schools of pharmacy partnered to develop a first-of-its-kind #buprenorphine practice guideline for the nation’s 60,000 community pharmacists.
Designed in collaboration with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and @commpharmacy, the guideline has been endorsed by a wide array of professional societies and advocacy organizations and is available at ncpa.org/opioids.
#MothersDay is this weekend, and FORE is celebrating moms and our #FOREgrantees who care for mothers impacted by the #opioidcrisis by connecting them to evidence-based treatment and promoting nonpunitive policies that help families stay together and thrive.
Team Lily, a clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, was designed to make it easier for patients affected by mental illness, substance use disorder (SUD), homelessness, and intimate partner violence to access perinatal care. “Anyone who is facing barriers getting into a standard four-walled pregnancy clinic, we’re ready to take care of,” says Dominika Seidman, MD, MAS, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital. To build trust, Team Lily sends navigators and social workers to meet pregnant patients in shelters, encampments, and homes. They also prioritize meeting patients’ basic needs, including food and shelter. An evaluation, funded by FORE, found that three-quarters of all patients in the program with an SUD received treatment and left the hospital with their babies. At one year of life, 90 percent of Team Lily babies were up-to-date on their well-child visits.
RFP: Community-Driven Responses to Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Mortality 2025
The Community-Driven Responses to Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Mortality 2025 RFP closed on July 2, 2025.
Applicants can expect to hear back about next steps by August 15, 2025.
More details can be found on our Grants & Funding page.
Recognizing An Urgent Need
The opioid crisis is impacting families and communities across the country. An estimated 140 Americans die every day (50,900 in the past 12 months) from an opioid overdose1, and an estimated 5.7 million experience an opioid use disorder2, affecting individuals, families, and communities across the nation.
Now more than ever, it is critical for us to think creatively, test new approaches, remove silos, and enhance and expand activities proven to prevent and reduce opioid use disorder.
1Provisional reported as of February 2025, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2025
2Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2024
We are committed to convening and supporting partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions addressing the opioid crisis. With patients at the center, we are focused on promoting excellence and supporting programs and grants in four key areas: Professional education, payer & provider strategies, policy initiatives, and public awareness.
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