About PORRS

Built by someone who walked it,
for those still walking.

PORRS was founded on a single belief: that the people best equipped to help others recover and rebuild are the ones who've done it themselves — with their feet on the same ground.

Our Story

PORRS — Peer Outreach Recovery & ReEntry Services — exists because too many people fall through the gaps between systems. Between courts and clinics. Between treatment and housing. Between the day someone walks out of incarceration and the long quiet weeks that follow. Between cultural identity and a healthcare system that doesn't always know how to honor it.

We were founded to be that connecting hand. Reaching back to pull someone forward. Not as an authority telling people what to do, but as peers walking alongside, holding the map and the lantern when the path gets dark.

Today, PORRS is an Arizona-based, ADHS-Licensed and AHCCCS-Certified provider delivering Community Health Worker services and Peer Recovery Support to three populations whose needs are too often overlooked: Veterans, American Indian and Alaska Native community members, and individuals navigating ReEntry from the justice system.

We're small on purpose. We grow on purpose. Every person we hire carries lived experience and formal credentials, because both matter. And we hold ourselves to the same standards of documentation, ethics, and accountability that any professional practice would — because the people we serve deserve nothing less.

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Founder & CEO
Manuel T. Robinson
Walking the same road, holding the lantern.

Manuel founded PORRS to build the kind of organization he wished existed when he was first finding his footing. He brings together lived experience with the recovery and ReEntry process and the formal credentials to back it up — a combination that defines how PORRS shows up for every person it serves.

As Founder and CEO, Manuel leads PORRS's program, operational, and contracting work, while staying directly engaged with clients whenever possible. He believes the work doesn't scale at the cost of the relationship — the relationship is the work.

Credential
CHW
ADHS-Licensed Community Health Worker
Credential
PRSS
AHCCCS-Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist
What We Stand For

Four principles that shape every encounter.

01

Dignity, every time.

Everyone we work with is met with respect — regardless of their past, their progress, their bad days, or their best ones. Recovery is not a reward we ration. It's a process we walk beside.

02

Lived experience matters.

Credentials open the door. Lived experience is what makes people stay in the room. Our team carries both because both are needed to do this work honestly.

03

Culture is not optional.

We honor Native tradition, Veteran identity, family systems, and the specific knowledge each community holds about its own healing. We adapt to people, not the other way around.

04

The work is the relationship.

Health system navigation, documentation, and outcomes all matter — but they all flow from one thing: a peer showing up consistently, without judgment, for as long as it takes.

Our Team

Growing thoughtfully. Hiring with purpose.

PORRS is in early-stage growth. As we expand network coverage and capacity, we're adding team members who bring both lived experience and formal credentials — the same standard the founder holds.

Join the team.

We're building a team of Community Health Workers and Peer Recovery Support Specialists with lived experience in recovery, ReEntry, military service, or Native community work. If that's you, we'd like to hear from you.

Get in touch

Partner with us.

Agencies, tribal programs, VA staff, courts, and providers — if you have clients who would benefit from peer recovery and ReEntry support, send them our way. We respond within 2 business days.

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No one crosses alone.

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