Notification of the Closure of the CORE Peer Navigator Program
In 2023, the Alliance for Rights and Recovery’s Peer Navigator program worked closely with the Office of Mental Health, local Community Oriented Recovery and Empowerment service providers and an array of local collaborators and referral sources to offer CORE Peer Navigation services to help engage, educate and encourage interested and eligible individuals to enroll in CORE Services across our state.
Thanks to the extraordinary dedication of our CORE Peer Navigators, Peer Call Specialists, supervisors, and support staff, the program reached almost 1,000 people across the state – helping them to access critical supports and reminding them that they are not alone.
Due to the lapsing of federal funding, the CORE Peer Navigator program closed at the end of July.
In the wake of the program’s closure, the Alliance’s top priority has been to ensure that individuals interested in CORE Services continue to have access to connections with designated CORE Services providers and local behavioral health services and support.
To that end, we are encouraging people to contact your local governmental unit (county) or the SPOA program in your area.
For contacting CORE Services providers in your local area, please see the CORE Services Designation List on the OMH CORE Services website found at https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/bho/core/providers/
We are extremely grateful to our Navigators for their great dedication and personalized support and to our partners at OMH for making the program possible. We are very proud of what we’ve built together, and grateful for the opportunity to touch and enrich the lives of so many people across New York State.
If you have further questions, please reach out to the Alliance’s Chief Operation Officer Len Statham at lens@rightsandrecovery.org or 585-490-3979.