More than 100 organizations across the state are getting grants to support families impacted by drug addiction.

The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission just handed out more than $30 million in the fight against the state's drug epidemic.

I'm proud to announce that earlier this week, Kentucky's opioid abatement advisory Commission awarded more than $34 million to organizations.

It is our largest funding distribution to date, and we are grateful and excited to see those dollars going to organizations focused on saving lives and helping to rebuild families for the first time.

For the first time, we're funding research and innovation.

I'm excited about this.

It includes one of the six organizations to receive first ever research grant dollars.

The Kentucky Alliance for Recovery Residences.

Now, this is a mouthful, but they are working to sustain statewide recovery housing outcomes.

One of those one of those critical nodes in recovery that especially in our rural areas that that housing is a tremendous deficit, a real a real limiting factor to recovery.

Our vision is to see the city of Lexington become a city for God.

That's a place where everyone has the opportunity to flourish.

How we do that is we connect leaders, we unify the body of Christ, and we mobilize people all to solve problems in our city.

Two of the ways we live that out is through youth empowerment.

LED by Marcus Patrick and Fatherhood Initiative led by Jared Sloan.

The amount of access that our young people have, even in schools, to vapes and drugs and gangs is unprecedented.

And so this money helps us just kind of build our arsenal of what we can take into schools, taken to communities to help come back, the issues that our young people face.

We are honored to steward recovery resources that help fathers rebuild, excuse me, rebuild their lives, reconnect with their children, and restore what addiction has tried to destroy.

This funding is going to allow us to expand our services to more fathers in more recovery centers, and to bring Doctor Raymond Lee these recovery, fathers in recovery curriculum to life.

I worry about the environment in which we're raising our kids.

It is a no margin of error environment.

It is a no margin of error environment in terms of the substances or one pill, one bad decision, one bad call, and they can lose their lives.

And it takes collaboration like this.

It takes a community like this to mitigate the size and the metastasizing threats that we're facing.

The commission awarded more than $3.6 million from the new research and Innovation grant.