The Massachusetts Recovery Advocacy Project (RAP-MA) brings together grassroots organizers in the recovery community to learn organizing tactics for advocating for people in recovery by supporting policies that increase access to treatment and recovery supports and improve the continuum of care. First and foremost, we are committed to raising the voices of our community members. Our community includes people in recovery, people who use drugs, family members, and any supporters of the recovery process.

Over the course of 2021, the RAP-MA team spent time conducting listening sessions with our community and developing our platform to organize directly from those conversations. I will be joining RAP-MA in supporting policies and policymakers working to improve:

ACCESS TO TREATMENT & RECOVERY by:
- Supporting All Pathways
- Applying Evidence Based Person Centered Care
- Advancing Innovative Brain Science & Technology

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT by:
- Integrating Education, Stigma Reduction, & Prevention
- Promoting Family Support & Engagement
- Coalition Building

CONTINUUM OF CARE by:
- Providing Safe Standard Driven Recovery Housing
- Enhancing High Quality Behavioral Health Services
- Improving Vocational & Employment Services
- Funding Recovery Community Centers
- Empowering Peer Supported Recovery Programs

I hope that you will join us in ending addiction and inspiring recovery through supportive policies.