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 ...

Brevard County first responders are finding new ways to process trauma, manage stress and support one another.

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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 ...

I n a dimly lit room strung with green Christmas lights, a student sits before a telephone, awaiting calls from struggling peers. On the wall in front of her is a bulletin board with instructions on ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As Iowa legislators continue to debate how best to allocate more than $25 million intended for treatment ...

Peer-to-peer support provided by ‘veteran’ neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents to those with current NICU babies is a legitimate and unique form of support that can complement or supplement, ...

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 ...

Kentucky's House Bill 505 has created a crisis for peer support specialists by adding clinical-style requirements to their nonclinical roles. The new law has made it more expensive for agencies to ...