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 ...

"Community helping community is a really productive way to meet needs," says Jenny Vollen-Katz, executive director of the John Howard Association, the organization behind a new report on peer support ...

Feeling overwhelmed? You're not alone. Whether it’s academic stress, social pressures, or just trying to figure it all out, college can feel like you’re carrying a lot on your own. But you don’t have ...

Having an intellect to fit together during hard-hitting times can be challenging, most notably when handling authoritarian sentiments or life situations. Thus, this is one vital reason why it is ...

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.

College students at the Johns Hopkins University (Photo by JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado/Getty Images). When it comes to tackling the unprecedented mental health issues facing today’s teens and young ...

A new peer respite center, Eva’s Casita, opens in Orlando in July 2024. Credit: Photo by McKenna Schueler Eva’s Casita, a peer respite center run by the local nonprofit Peer Support Space, officially ...

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 ...