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 ...

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 ...

After a life-saving liver transplant, Larry Monroy opened the Peer Center at Coshocton to help others. The center offers peer support groups for addiction, anxiety, depression, and other mental health ...

An app-based peer support program boosted self-confidence and social connection for people newly diagnosed with multiple ...

Elliot Brooks, manager of the new peer cafe in Raleigh, embraces Thanos, a participant who has found community and support through the new space designed to help those on their journeys of recovery.

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

Counseling can be prohibitively expensive and sometimes is not even what's needed most. Sometimes people just need to feel heard and less alone.

Most Kentuckians don’t know what a peer support specialist is — and, as HB 505 has made painfully clear, neither did the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Kimberley Moser. That misunderstanding has now pushed ...