Right Response Colorado
Advocating for community care, not incarceration.
Right Response Colorado works at the intersection of people with unmet health needs and the criminal legal system, advocating for evidence-based health solutions instead of punishment or incarceration. The coalition brings together people and families with lived and living experience, clinicians, researchers, advocates, and academics around shared policy priorities that shift Colorado from relying on police and prisons for unmet health needs to a fully-funded health care system.
I contribute to Right Response Colorado as a peer policy advocate and community-engaged researcher, helping ensure the priorities of people who use drugs and their families are centered in legislative work.
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Focus areas
- Decoupling behavioral health crises from police response
- Expanding Harm Reduction services and overdose prevention infrastructure
- Reducing criminal-legal penalties that drive overdose and disconnection from care
- Building durable peer leadership in Colorado policy spaces