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 ...

Siani Anderson is an MPH student majoring in Community Health and Prevention with an interest in Maternal and Child Health (MCH). For Siani MCH is about family. Siani grew up hearing stories from new ...

NCHC’s Peer Support Workers have lived through their own struggles and are trained to walk alongside you through life’s toughest moments. Meet Neil Goerz, Peer Support Worker at NCHC’s Danville Health ...

Christina Lee in St. Louis. She works at the St. Louis Empowerment Center as a peer case manager supervisor. She spoke about peer support workers – people who have their own experiences with either ...

As we face increasing violence, injustice, and crisis in our world, we will not let these oppressive systems steal our joy or rob us of rest. We will not let them have our hopes and dreams. We will ...

GRANTS — Nabor Santiesteban grew up on the streets of New Mexico, spending years with a drug addiction that left him in a wheelchair with a spinal infection while in and out of prison. In 2011, he was ...

Are you an activist, educator, healer, movement leader, student, intern, or care provider struggling to keep up with the needs of a planet and people in crisis? No matter how much you do or how hard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peer support specialist Chris Sudduth, 43, of Georgetown, is working toward earning the new credential that would again make his ...