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 ...

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"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 ...

Rayshell Chambers used to be scared to talk about her mental health challenges. The first time she was hospitalized was at 14. She was a straight-A student and cross-country runner, but she felt ...

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 ...

When Desiree Malouin returned to New Hampshire after living out West, the experienced dog trainer and commercial truck driver couldn’t find stable or gainful employment. Post-traumatic stress 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 ...