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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is part of a series on transforming health systems published with support from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms ...

Driving by, you wouldn’t realize that the Horizon House in Duluth had so much transformation happening inside. There is space for 10 men who are living in recovery. In the past six months, Horizon ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...