Peer support is the sleeping giant that may help us overcome the social and mental health crises we currently face.

Peer support apps are supposed to help people with their mental health, but there are undisclosed risks. Credit: Bob Al-Greene / Mashable An investigation into the risks and dangers of seeking comfort ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People seeking help at Tauranga Hospital’s Emergency Department now have access to a new kind of support – one built on lived experience, empathy and connection. Peer support workers have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.