Youth mental health needs continue to surge. The answer may not be new tech, but connection. This piece makes the case for ...

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 ...

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-led organisation strengthens national support efforts for veterans and first responders living with trauma, moral ...

This week Mad in America examines three studies related to peer support work in mental healthcare. The first finds positive ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...