The Steadman Group leads collaborative, community-driven planning and governance for opioid settlement funds across the nation. We bring together local governments, coalitions, service providers, and individuals with lived experience to build inclusive, transparent, and accountable decision-making bodies that foster trust and effective action.
Our expertise centers on facilitating consensus-driven governance that balances priorities, ensuring that settlement funds are managed with integrity. We guide long-term strategic planning by helping stakeholders co-create goals, select evidence-based strategies, and develop practical implementation plans rooted in local insights.
We pioneered this process, facilitating opioid settlements starting in 2021. We have worked with dozens of counties in more than ten states. Our proven track record includes leading an eighteen-year city-county opioid plan in Wichita-Sedgwick, managing statewide evaluations in Oklahoma, creating public-facing dashboards for multiple Colorado regional opioid abatement councils, helping plan a statewide conference for Kansas’ opioid settlements, and serving as trusted national consultants with the Opioid Response Network.
In addition to facilitation and strategic planning, evaluation is a cornerstone of our work. We design and conduct comprehensive impact assessments across prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery while amplifying community input throughout the process. We deliver findings in accessible, user-friendly formats such as interactive data dashboards, supporting transparency, continuous learning, and smarter resource allocation.
The most effective opioid responses are built from the ground up. We partner with communities to leverage settlement funds toward their unique strengths, challenges, and values, turning resources into lasting foundations for resilience.
Partner with Steadman Group to transform your opioid settlement into sustainable, community-centered solutions that create measurable impact and healthier futures.
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Whether forming new advisory groups or enhancing existing coalitions, we ensure key stakeholders, such as people with lived experience, public agencies, nonprofits, and community members, are actively involved in decision-making.
Our strategic planning services bring together diverse stakeholders to create a unified vision for opioid settlement funding and long-term sustainability.
We craft and deliver evaluation strategies that reveal the true impact of opioid settlement investments while fostering transparency and ongoing learning.
We guide opioid response initiatives through every stage—from initial concept to procurement, implementation, and ongoing monitoring.
The National Opioid Settlement Conference™ is the first national convening dedicated entirely to the equitable, transparent, and effective use of opioid settlement funds
