The Municipal Matching Grant program helps Massachusetts cities and towns maximize their opioid abatement funds to address the overdose crisis. By providing matching funds, the program incentivizes municipalities to scale impactful work, expand their resources, and build capacity across communities.  The annual grants range from $50,000 (single municipality) to $150,000 (regional collaborative).

For municipalities pursuing Mosaic funding, EDC can help turn Mosaic’s priorities into a strong, data-driven, community-informed and evidence-based plans to address the opioid epidemic and save lives in your community. EDC helps communities translate these needs into practical, evidence-based strategies that are sustainable and aligned with Mosaic priorities, using prevention science.

How EDC Can Help

EDC has helped strengthen the nation’s response to substance use disorder across the continuum of care for more than 35 years and supported local community coalitions and prevention professionals in building effective, sustainable prevention programs. The substantial variation from one community to the next in opioid-related overdose rates, community conditions and other drivers, gaps in services and local capacity. These factors should inform local-specific overdose prevention strategies and opioid policy.  

We have experience supporting local Massachusetts communities developing strategic plans to utilize their opioid abatement dollars effectively to reach those most impacted, as well as state-funded communities doing opioid overdose prevention work in single municipalities and in regional collaboratives. 

Our team brings deep cross-sector expertise in substance use disorder and opioid overdose prevention and response, and evaluation to help communities strengthen upstream primary substance misuse prevention as well as downstream efforts addressing harm reduction, access to care, recovery, and family supports. We’ve also helped communities develop system-wide policies, protocols and practices that support early identification, intervention, referral, and coordinated supports for people with opioid use disorder and other behavioral health needs.

Considering partnering with EDC to gain access to experts who can help:

• Develop strategic plans for opioid abatement funds spending and facilitate strategic planning sessions
• Conduct local substance-use disorder prevention data collection and needs assessments
• Prioritizing risk and protective factors and identifying evidence-based strategies for substance use disorder prevention across the continuum of care
• Identify key community partners, coalition building, and cross-sector community planning
• Workforce development trainings on topics such as Substance Misuse Across the Continuum of Care: Finding Common Ground and Addressing Opioid Overdose: Understanding the Role of Prevention
• Conduct local evaluation, performance measurement, and continuous improvement

Considering applying?

If your community is exploring a Mosaic application, now is the time to begin planning. 

To discuss how EDC can support your planning, proposal development, implementation design, or evaluation approach, reach out to Ben Spooner, Director of Prevention Solutions, to schedule a 30-minute call or contact us at solutions@edc.org any time!

About EDC

Education Development Center (EDC) is a global nonprofit that works with partners to advance every person’s journey to learn, work, and be well. For over 65 years, EDC has partnered with communities, governments, and the private sector to improve education, workforce development, and health outcomes. 
Across the U.S., EDC has helped strengthen prevention and wellbeing systems by building the behavioral health workforce, supporting cross-sector partnerships, informing public policy, and helping schools and communities put evidence-based approaches into practice—reaching more than 75,000 professionals, supporting over 600 schools and communities, and contributing to national prevention policy through more than 300 federal briefings.