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 support in mental health services is an increasingly integral component of care, valued for its capacity to enhance recovery, self-efficacy and empowerment among service users. By harnessing the ...
Our Own Lives is a new nonprofit in Southwest Colorado and will serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with a wide array of supports. Formerly the direct service arm of ...
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 Wisconsin's peer-run respite centers opened up support lines to callers in 2016, it was assumed people would be calling to arrange future overnight stays. It turned out, talking to peers about ...
The partnership forms a volunteer focus group to design structured youth life-preparedness pilots aligned with ...
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 ...
Peer support workers are joining the frontline in Dunedin Hospital's emergency department to help people arriving in mental health crisis. It's the sixth major hospital to add the service since ...