This $443,393 Project Grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management, under the AmeriCorps State and National 94.006 federal grant program, funds planning activities for Project Opioid Initiative, Inc. to prepare for a full-cost AmeriCorps program. The planning grant allows Project Opioid Initiative to develop its program model and recruit and train AmeriCorps members over the one-year period from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024. Upon successful completion of planning deliverables, Project Opioid Initiative will be positioned to address an unmet community need through AmeriCorps members engaged by a fully operational program under a subsequent AmeriCorps State and National grant award. The regulatory match is 24% and budgetary match is 45.87% for this planning period ending March 2024.