These resources provide valuable insights and tools for enhancing peer support and community inclusion for individuals with psychiatric disabilities. They cover topics such as strategies for strengthening young professional peer specialists, perspectives of peer specialists in crisis intervention services, the role of peer specialists in promoting community inclusion, practical guides for developing and facilitating self-help groups, and more!
Richard Baron, David Measel, and Rev. Ann Helmke held a national discussion on the role of peer specialists in connecting people with psychiatric illnesses to religious/spiritual groups. The webinar covered strategies, experiences, and roles of peer specialists in this process.
This policy brief, based on an informal national environmental scan with forensic peer specialist programs across the county in 2011, seeks to define what we know at present about this new workforce and to establish a research agenda for the future.
This document provides information about challenges to engagement for youth and young adults. It also includes information about the role that peer supporters can play in supporting youth and young adults.
This document by the Temple University Collaborative provides an overview of Certified Peer Specialist training programs in 13 states, including competencies covered, eligibility criteria, and contact information for each program.