Aguiar-Curry Secures $225,000 for Recovery Cafe
Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) secured $225,000 in the California State Budget to support the Mercy Coalition’s 10-month-old Recovery Cafe West Sacramento. The allocation represents an important investment in providing a safe, healing space for West Sacramentans from all walks of life.
“As a homegrown West Sacramento nonprofit, we couldn't be more grateful for the advocacy of Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Aguiar-Curry in securing this budget allocation,” said MC executive director Don Bosley.“Every weekday, Recovery Cafe West Sac wraps its arms around some of our city’s most fragile - those impacted by the trauma of substance-use disorders, homelessness, mental health disorders, domestic violence, grief, and poverty.”
“The cafe has quickly become more than just an evidence-based mental-health strategy; it's a healing space of visceral hope, inclusion, resilience, and belonging. It is a resonating pocket of restorative community, where the shared journey of recovery cuts across race, class, identity, age, and socioeconomic position. We believe in its mission wholeheartedly, and we're overwhelmed that our state, county, and city leaders are so tangibly beside us in these efforts.
“Generations of West Sacramentans will reap the love and support that these dollars are seeding.”
