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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a quiet sea change underway in some mental health care settings in Massachusetts and beyond — and it often looks a lot different from therapy. People who’ve struggled with bipolar disorder, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When deadly floods swept through the Texas Hill Country on the morning of July 4, the first people on the scene were law enforcement, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel. They were ...