A bill meant to give peer support specialists a two-year reprieve from new credentialing requirements that threaten to put ...

For many veterans, recovery from mental health challenges, substance use, trauma or major life transitions does not begin ...

Peer Support Specialists expand the non-clinical workforce to improve patient experience and outcomes and reduce clinical staff burnout.

At Bon Secours Mercy Health, a peer support program is a key component of healthcare worker well-being efforts. A program that features peer support is helping healthcare workers at Bon Secours Mercy ...

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 ...

According to the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM), healing is our birthright. But, Black folks often face challenges when trying to access sustainable healthcare for our emotional ...

MIAMI — 4 Investigates traveled to Florida to see firsthand the Miami program that helped inspire New Mexico’s new behavioral health reform law — and to understand what state policymakers saw before ...

Peer support is little known outside the world of mental health and drug and alcohol services. For me it has become a big part of my life. Not only have I experienced the power of peer support, I have ...

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 ...

Project Resilience 911, co-founded and led by Amanda Griffith Conway, began in 2020 to connect first responders with peers ...