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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 and sustain long term state funding for all 23 community peer recovery centers."
David Marchman and others quantified the request: roughly $275,000 per center, totaling about $6.35 million annually and roughly $31 million over five years. Speakers argued CPRCs reduce emergency-department utilization and overdoses, and recommended formal integration with treatment, harm-reduction and housing services.
Behavioral health provider groups requested across-the-board rate increases, funding for children's partial hospital programs, recruitment and retention bonuses, loan redemption expansion, and capital investments—specific asks included $54M for rates, $3.2M for children's partial hospital rate increases, $8M for recruitment and retention, and $20M in capital funding (per testimony submitted to DHS).
Advocates also recommended voluntary peer respites and housing stabilization bridge funds to prevent displacement after HUD Continuum of Care changes. DHS took testimony; no commitment was announced at the session.
