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Recovery, behavioral health and crisis services advocates push for sustained CPRC funding and workforce investments
Summary
Speakers from recovery organizations, behavioral health providers, and peer-support networks urged DHS to secure long-term funding for community peer recovery centers (CPRCs), expand voluntary peer-led crisis alternatives and invest in workforce and facility support to sustain recent overdose-reduction gains.
Multiple speakers told DHS that community peer recovery centers are vital public health infrastructure and asked the department to secure long-term funding as opioid settlement and other short-term funds phase out. Cindy Marie Dix said the funding that sustains CPRCs "is unstable and set to end in 2027," and asked the state to "protect…
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