The Peer Recovery Innovations and Systems Mobilization (PRISM) Center is Missouri’s new statewide technical assistance hub dedicated to strengthening and unifying peer-based recovery support services across the state. Funded by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), PRISM serves as a backbone entity, providing coordinated training, technical assistance (TA), evaluation, and shared resources to organizations that implement peer recovery programs. By ensuring evidence-based, equitable, and sustainable approaches, the PRISM Center helps reduce fragmentation and promote consistency in the delivery of peer support, bridging gaps among healthcare, behavioral health, and community recovery systems.
The PRISM Center’s work benefits the entire statewide peer recovery network, building a lasting infrastructure and knowledge base that other organizations can also leverage. Lived experience is at the center of every level of PRISM’s design: a Lived Experience TA Specialist on staff ensures all efforts remain peer-centered, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented, and peers with lived experience help guide priorities. Data-driven evaluation and continuous needs assessment inform PRISM’s focus areas, so that TA and training are responsive to real-world needs and lead to measurable improvement. Ultimately, PRISM is about aligning and elevating the many peer recovery efforts in Missouri into a cohesive, high-quality system that better supports individuals, families, and communities on their recovery journeys.
We are committed to mobilizing systems change and innovation by developing a sustainable statewide infrastructure that coordinates, strengthens, and supports peer-based recovery support services across Missouri. By aligning efforts across health, behavioral health, and public and community systems, PRISM aims to ensure high-quality, consistent peer support is available to all individuals and families impacted by substance use and mental health challenges, ultimately improving recovery outcomes and community well-being.
We envision a fully integrated, equitable, and sustainable peer recovery support system in Missouri, one where peer-based support is embedded as a standard part of care across healthcare, behavioral health, public systems and community settings. Everyone affected by substance use or mental health challenges can easily access compassionate, high-quality peer support, and Missouri’s recovery support ecosystem thrives as a unified, innovative network serving all communities.
Missouri continues to face serious substance use and mental health crises, reflected in rising overdose deaths that have surpassed 100,000 per year nationwide. Peer-based recovery support, connecting individuals with trained peers who have lived experience, is a proven, person-centered strategy to help people achieve and sustain recovery. However, peer recovery programs operate in diverse settings and vary widely in their structure, training, and support, leading to inconsistencies and gaps for those who need them most.
The TAC advances recovery-oriented systems of care by:
Peer support
helps connect mothers and families to recovery resources, treatment, and long-term support.*
*PRISM TAC Needs Assessment
