Budd Kuyper / Uncle Budd

Why Budd is qualified to be a Broken Crayon

Budd lives with dual diagnosis — substance use disorder and mental health challenges — and turned that history into a calling. He is an Ohio Certified Peer Recovery Supporter (CPRS) and an ordained chaplain.

Strengths Budd brings

The vision and the voice. Budd founded the Crayons with Selwyn in 2024, facilitates the Wednesday relapse-prevention groups, writes the weekly lesson plans himself, and does the pastoral work — the hospital visits, the late-night texts, the showing up — that a peer-led organization runs on.