Peer Support

Following more than six years of participatory action activities at peer support workforce conferences, three researchers and practitioners with lived experience, Jeremy Reuling, Rita Cronise, and Jessica Wolf, have developed this agenda identifying ten peer support workforce priorities with recommendations for action based on what they heard from members of the workforce. The Action Agenda can be used both to improve stakeholders’ understanding of challenges faced by the peer workforce, and as a guide to specific strategies to address them effectively at all stakeholder levels.
This document has been endorsed by the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion, Alliance for Rights and Recovery, Pat Deegan, Ph.D. & Associates, and the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association.

PaPSC collaborated with Temple University to produce a video featuring peer specialists discussing their roles in crisis intervention services. The video is now available on their website along with trainee and trainer manuals for the three-day training program.

The session aims to educate peer specialists and their supervisors on community inclusion and the role of peer specialists in promoting it. Consumer leaders share their experiences in advanced training for peer specialists to better support service recipients.

A 2006 survey was conducted in Pennsylvania to gather information about the operations, staff, consumer involvement, common activities, and challenges of Drop-In Centers for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, offering an overview of their community inclusion programming.

This document features an interview with a Certified Peer Specialist about his role and experience working at a Center for Independent Living, which provides services to people with disabilities to promote independent living and community participation.

This document presents a discussion of the job titles and responsibilities of Certified Peer Specialists in paid CPS positions across the US, based on a survey of 275 CPS staff conducted by the Temple University Collaborative.

This three-page guide provides practical information on planning and facilitating peer-led self-help group meetings. It includes a sample agenda, facilitation tools, and tips on developing effective group meetings. A resource list is also provided.

This document summarizes a workshop at the iNAPS annual conference where attendees generated research questions on peer support effectiveness, researcher characteristics, and research use. This Center product was developed to disseminate these questions.