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Keys 2 Serenity, a Summit County nonprofit, is one of hundreds of grant applicants who didn鈥檛 get funding from the OneOhio Recovery Foundation this round. The group wants to build a support group for teens and young adults who lost a parent to the opioid crisis.

An organization in central Ohio unveiled a new tool last month to better meet the needs of its growing unhoused population. The Soap-n-Hope Mobile Hygiene Unit is a 32-foot-long trailer equipped with showers and laundry machines.

Cuyahoga and Summit counties were the first in Ohio to sue opioid makers and distributors. Now, they have to decide how distribute the payout.

The OneOhio Recovery Foundation is charged with distributing 55% of the state鈥檚 opioid settlement funds. But some families and harm reduction groups are concerned the board lacks racial diversity.

Ohio is getting more than a billion dollars in settlement money to compensate for the harm of opioids. The state is taking lessons from past mistakes with an even larger drug settlement decades ago.

Ohio and its communities are expected to receive about $2 billion from pharmaceutical companies over the course of 18 years to compensate for harm caused by opioids. But there鈥檚 not much oversight over how the money will be spent.