COPA - The Colorado Providers Association

The Colorado Providers Association (COPA) is a professional trade association representing clinical and non-clinical substance use disorder prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery service providers. Formed in 1994, our mission is to advocate, strengthen, and elevate the voice of Colorado’s network of prevention, treatment, and recovery providers to improve statewide, equitable access to care and outcomes for people with substance use disorders. COPA envisions a state where all persons with substance use disorders and related behavioral health needs have full access and equity to care, provided with dignity and respect, free from stigma; and public policy that supports the full continuum including prevention, treatment, and recovery. We are also the statewide governing Board of both the Colorado Prevention Specialist Certification and the Colorado Peer and Family Specialist Certification.