BOSTON – The head of a network of peer-supported mental health centers in Western Massachusetts is warning that some of the centers are at risk of closing due to a budget cut proposed by Gov. Charlie Baker.

“If we got cut by 50 percent, we’d have to close centers,” said Sera Davidow, director of the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community. “We’re really not sure how we’d survive it.”

Advocates for Recovery Learning Communities around the state rallied at the Statehouse on Wednesday against a provision in Baker’s proposed fiscal year 2016 budget that would cut $1.7 million, or half of the total state funding………

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