Ribbon Cutting for Peer Respite Program in Wake County

As part of an ongoing effort to transform North Carolina's behavioral health crisis response system, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is partnering with Alliance Health and Promise Resource Network to hold a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new Peer Respite Center in Wake County.

Community-based peer respite programs, like the program opening in Raleigh, are a voluntary resource for people seeking mental health, substance use or behavioral health crisis support. These innovative programs offer home-like settings that are among the least restrictive options for behavioral health treatment, offering 24-hour access to Peer Support Specialists who provide support from the perspective of lived experience. This will be the third peer respite center in North Carolina.

Peer respite services are an important part of the behavioral health crisis response system because they offer non-clinical support from people who know what it's like to work through their own mental health or substance use struggles and live a fulfilling, productive and happy life in recovery.

More than $130 million of the historic $835 million investment in behavioral health in the 2023 state budget is dedicated to improving North Carolina's crisis response system, including ensuring someone experiencing a behavioral health crisis can receive the right care for them in the most appropriate setting. Credentialed media are invited to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony, tour the center and talk with Health and Human Services Secretary Kody H. Kinsley and other speakers.

What: NCDHHS Secretary Kody H. Kinsley, Alliance Health and Promise Resource Network to hold ribbon cutting ceremony for new Peer Respite Program in Wake County

Who: Kody H. Kinsley, Secretary, NCDHHS
Kelly Crosbie, Director, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Services, NCDHHS
Cherene Caraco, CEO, Promise Resource Network
David Hancock, Board Chair, Alliance Health
Alan Hirsch, CEO, North Carolina Healthcare Quality Alliance

Where: The Retreat @ Fernwood
3608 Fernwood Drive
Raleigh, NC 27612

When: Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Media: Credentialed media are invited to attend and should RSVP to [email protected]. Media should arrive by 9:20 a.m.