Traumatic and stressful events will always be a part of health care. According to the US Department of Veteran Affairs’ Stress First Aid Model for healthcare, stressors can sometimes lead to emotional ...

Peer Support Specialists expand the non-clinical workforce to improve patient experience and outcomes and reduce clinical staff burnout.

Quiet Corner Peer Support Group is holding a grand opening for their new wellness center in Danielson Jan. 31. Here's a look ...

For many veterans, recovery from mental health challenges, substance use, trauma or major life transitions does not begin ...

Feeling overwhelmed? You're not alone. Whether it’s academic stress, social pressures, or just trying to figure it all out, college can feel like you’re carrying a lot on your own. But you don’t have ...

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

After a life-saving liver transplant, Larry Monroy opened the Peer Center at Coshocton to help others. The center offers peer support groups for addiction, anxiety, depression, and other mental health ...

Having an intellect to fit together during hard-hitting times can be challenging, most notably when handling authoritarian sentiments or life situations. Thus, this is one vital reason why it is ...

This interview accompanies the third podcast in our National Recovery Month series with Kim MacDonald-Wilson, ScD, CPRP, senior program director, Recovery and Wellness Transformation, and Tracy Carney ...

A new peer respite center, Eva’s Casita, opens in Orlando in July 2024. Credit: Photo by McKenna Schueler Eva’s Casita, a peer respite center run by the local nonprofit Peer Support Space, officially ...

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 ...