Recovery-focused groups feeling especially exposed to cost-cutting

Mass uncertainty about the extent of threatened government cuts to human-services programs has placed organizations that are at the forefront of the recovery movement in what one national advocate calls a “freeze.” Feeling unable to count on the sustainability of their main funding sources at the federal or state level, many recovery support organizations are already pulling back programs and dismissing staff even before budget decisions have been finalized, though many have not yet gone public with their actions.