Jenny Keener is no stranger to substance use disorder.

Keener adopted her sister's children after her sibling overdosed and died in 2012. Her sister's daughter also died of an overdose in 2020, at age 22. Keener, the community outreach coordinator for Heart and Hand Outreach Ministries , a South Charleston-based community service agency, carries out the nonprofit's programming with her sister and niece in mind.

"I want to be that place that would have helped [them]," Keener said.

Last year, Heart and Hand received $25,000 from South Charleston's share of opioid settlement funds. Keener said it's made a huge difference to those in need of Heart and Hand's services. But it was just a drop in the bucket of the $73.5 million distributed by West Virginia in the fiscal year ending in June 2

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