THEY'VE BEEN THERE: From left, Philip Cooper, Jenna Woodman, Dillon Moss and Brandon Manson are part of the peer support specialist team in the Investments Supporting Partnerships in Recovery ...

BACK INTO THE 20S WITH THOSE PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. BILL AND JULIE. CHILLY. OKAY. THANKS, BILL. CHI. HEALTH GETS A HALF MILLION DOLLAR GRANT TO HELP GROW ITS PEER SPECIALIST PROGRAM. THEY’LL ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. - The Tucson Police Department started its deflection program back in 2018, and with the help of peer support specialists with CODAC the program continues to thrive. There are six Tucson ...

When Alicia Doty was in a Shakopee prison for drug-related charges stemming from her methamphetamine addiction, volunteers who had once shared her experience visited during her 1 1/2-year sentence.

THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM WITH MORE PEOPLE REACHING OUT FOR HELP AND ASKING FOR THERAPY TO NAVIGATE THE PRESSURES OF LIFE. SOME SPECIALLY TRAINED WORKERS ARE THERE FOR THEM. THEY’RE TAKING THE PRESSURE ...

Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, a maximum security prison where the peer specialist program started. | Photo courtesy Wisconsin Department of Corrections William Bowers is incarcerated ...

Kerman is executive director of Blanchet House in Portland. Last August, I wrote an op-ed outlining the need for a team of mental health and peer-support specialists to regularly circulate among the ...

A New York City job training program is inspiring people to use their mental health struggles and trauma experiences to help others and get paid for it. It’s an eight-month program and there’s a ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Odalis Delgado said that for many immigrants like herself who speak Spanish and other ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A few weeks from now, the Community Help Center will begin providing services to homeless people who are dealing with behavioral health issues through a new peer-to-peer program that ...

HAMILTON — The RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) Institute for Prevention and Recovery (IFPR) has expanded its Peer Recovery Program to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Hamilton. The program ...