Traumatic and stressful events will always be a part of health care. According to the US Department of Veteran Affairs’ Stress First Aid Model for healthcare, stressors can sometimes lead to emotional ...

Peer-to-peer support provided by ‘veteran’ neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents to those with current NICU babies is a legitimate and unique form of support that can complement or supplement, ...

Lamoille County Mental Health Services (LCMHS) has been providing peer support for many years now. This is groundbreaking work in the emerging climate of the mental health landscape. Peer support is ...

When Alicia Doty was in a Shakopee prison for drug-related charges stemming from her methamphetamine addiction, volunteers who had once shared her experience visited during her 1 1/2-year sentence.

Adolescent me. At the library. Looking at a bulletin board. It had been a rough year for me and my mental health with hospitalizations, intensive outpatient, medications, and therapy. I often wondered ...

Peer Recovery Support Specialists offer mentoring, education and support in group settings as well as individualized one-on-one coaching sessions. Peer-to-peer services offer participants the support, ...

In Georgia, peer providers bring lived experience and a focus on recovery to the behavioral health workforce. Change: On the campus of the old Central State Hospital, in Milledgeville, Georgia, peer ...

THEY'VE BEEN THERE: From left, Philip Cooper, Jenna Woodman, Dillon Moss and Brandon Manson are part of the peer support specialist team in the Investments Supporting Partnerships in Recovery ...

TONIGHT IN ORLANDO, NONPROFIT IS BRINGING A NEW APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES HERE CENTRAL FLORIDA. THAT’S RIGHT. PEER SUPPORT SPACE IS BUILDING A RESPITE HOME FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING MENTAL ...

With Gift Aid, your generous donation of £10 would be worth £12.50 at no extra cost to you. Yes, I want to Gift Aid any donations made to NAM now, in the future and in the past four years I am a UK ...

The Harbor in Shippensburg has announced that it has been chosen by the Capital Area Behavioral Health Collaborative to set up and administrate a recovery support services program. Anchored Peer ...

Healthcare workforce shortages need not impede your access to behavioral healthcare, thanks partly to volunteers and peer support. The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental ...