Perhaps not coincidentally, 81 percent of respondents rated peer counseling as the most challenging to implement out of five types of programs, which also included peer listening programs (in which ...

Peer work can be informal—a coming together of like minds and experiences to help one another. This is the format of many of NAMI’s support groups: people helping each other by sharing lessons ...

When asked to start a support group for gay black men living with HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, Larry Scott-Walker said no thanks. His friend raised the question in 2015, and by that point ...

One of the positives of peer-based support is that students who don’t have a trusted adult in their life may be more comfortable asking for help from a peer. According to the 2021 Washington state ...

Peer support teams “can also help normalize mental health by … comparing good mental health with physical health.” 6 This type of engagement goes a long way toward stigma reduction, which is ...

Cook says peer-group participants benefit in five basic ways: executive education and training; information sharing; resource sharing; new ideas and “tough love” challenges; and personal support.

We offer two types of peer support training: tier one, a one-hour course that provides a group with an overview of how to support each other, and tier two, a longer course for people interested in ...

Freda Jones, founder of LOTUS, empowers women living with HIV in Atlanta through a peer-led support group. Peer support is crucial for HIV care.

The Chaplaincy Program is a type of peer support program. "Peer support is basically a very similar thing, except you’re just not an ordained minister like the rest of us are; it doesn’t come ...

Founded on the campus in 1970, Middle Earth is a pioneer in the growing field of “peer support,” an umbrella term that includes mental-health hotlines, text lines, and apps, as well as short ...