Sept. 3, 2009, was a date that was 14 years in the making for Air Force veteran Kevin Cook. He first entered a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center for help treating his depression and ...

Jubilee Healing Farm plants a seed within students, patients and in the ground to heal and grow. “I just was struck by this dream of being able to provide behavioral health care in a farm-based ...

Santa Barbara’s peer support program is helping homeless mothers rebuild their lives. For months, Sophia Mendez lived in ...

I still remember the charge nurse looking at me when I walked into the hospital four years ago for my first assignment as a peer recovery specialist. She pointed me toward the far corner of the ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Central Oregon Community College is now authorized to offer the state of Oregon’s certified Peer Support Specialist training. One of the first such programs in the region, the ...

A change in Kentucky's licensing standards for substance use recovery peer support specialists is set to take effect at the ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS McCHORD, Wash. --Thirty two junior officers and junior enlisted Soldiers assigned to the 7th Infantry Division attended a 40- hour peer to peer Sexual Harassment/Assault Response ...

Life is too difficult to go it alone. But in this vast openness of social media, being alone is even more isolating. But the ...

If you are are going through a tough time or difficult life circumstance and can’t find the right person to talk to - someone with “Lived Experience” in mental health, addiction and trauma could make ...

Lauren Clements has been hospitalized so many times for mental illness — 18 to be exact — she questions whether the care she receives makes any difference. But, she says, what does help her is other ...

Once sustained on shoestring budgets, peer-run mental health spaces are expanding across North Carolina as state and local leaders invest in programs led by people with lived experience.