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Community Hubs

At the Washington Recovery Alliance (WRA), we’re building a statewide recovery movement rooted in lived experience, grassroots leadership, and equity.

What Are Community Hubs?

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Community Hubs are local, collaborative spaces that bring people together to lead recovery solutions from the ground up.

Community Hubs establish the foundation of a statewide recovery ecosystem that is informed by lived experience, rooted in equity, and customized to the unique strengths and challenges of each community.

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As local recovery collaboratives, Hubs unite diverse partners, including individuals in recovery, families, peers, providers, Tribal and rural voices, youth leaders, and representatives from various systems, to collaboratively develop local solutions and promote recovery as a public health and public policy priority.

Community Hubs build locally rooted infrastructure for organizing, advocating, and sustaining recovery support.

 

Hubs are designed to:

  • Center community voice and lived experience in all aspects of planning and decision-making.

  • Identify and respond to local recovery needs, barriers, and opportunities.

  • Build trust, collaboration, and alignment across local systems and sectors.

  • Serve as a conduit between communities and broader policy and funding systems.

  • Promote health equity and reduce stigma around substance use and recovery.

 

Core Features:

  • Community-Led: Hubs prioritize leadership by people with lived and living experience, ensuring that strategies and solutions are informed by those most impacted.

  • Collaborative & Cross-Sector: Hubs bring together diverse partners across behavioral health, criminal legal systems, education, healthcare, housing, prevention, and peer services.

  • Culturally Responsive: Hubs reflect and serve the unique cultural, geographic, and demographic identity of their communities.

  • Flexible by Design: While anchored in core recovery values, each Hub evolves based on local context — there is no one-size-fits-all model.

  • Reciprocally Connected: Hubs are supported by and contribute to a broader network through WRA, sharing insights, informing advocacy, and benefiting from statewide coordination.

Our Relationship with Community Hubs

The Washington Recovery Alliance (WRA) is a statewide Recovery Community Organization (RCO) committed to building a recovery-oriented system of care led by communities.

 

We serve as the backbone — providing infrastructure, policy support, and amplification for the work happening at the local level.WRA doesn’t direct the work of Community Hubs — we partner with them. This relationship is rooted in reciprocity, shared vision, and mutual accountability.

WRA is here to:

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  • Translate lived experience into action through advocacy and policy change

  • Strengthen local recovery efforts with training, funding, and coordination

  • Connect Hubs to a broader statewide network of peers and partners

  • Champion equity and community leadership at every level of decision-making

Hubs shape WRA’s statewide strategies, and in return, WRA provides:

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  • Funding opportunities and fiscal sponsorship (when available)

  • Advocacy tools and policy support

  • Peer network building and knowledge exchange

  • Capacity-building and leadership development

  • Technical assistance and strategic support

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Community Hubs are the heartbeat of Washington’s recovery ecosystem.
With WRA walking alongside, local leaders are creating the conditions for long-term, community-driven change.

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