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Now the big opportunity begins. Our community rallied through the hearings and the comment period, and on September 22 the Oregon Health Authority withdrew its plan to double every license fee. The agency did not say why. The relief is real, and it is temporary.

Our namesake envisioned this program nearly a decade ago and co-wrote Measure 109, the ballot measure Oregon voters passed in 2020. More than 22,000 people have been served since, with a safety record to match. That record belongs to the facilitators, service center operators, manufacturers and clients who built it and trusted it early.

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The estimators, savings models & national policy atlas live on the Research Incubator

We brought the interactive tools together in one place so they always run on the latest Census, CMS and MACPAC data, the reach and Medicaid-savings estimators, the payer scenario lab, and the state-by-state policy map.

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Every dollar stretches further inside the state-regulated model. Your support funds real-world research and puts legal, supported care within reach for the people who need it most.

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We send infrequent, long updates. To stay in the loop on our research, funds, and 2026 plans, reach out anytime at info@sherieckert.org.

The Sheri Eckert Foundation funds and builds real-world research, access funds, and policy infrastructure, carrying forward the legacy of a woman who helped create the world's first publicly available, state-regulated psilocybin healthcare model.

The Sheri Eckert Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit project of the Oregon Research Foundation. This page summarizes research and policy for educational purposes; it is not medical or legal advice. Figures shown in the tools are illustrative of scale, not precise forecasts or promises.