Peer support training helps employees understand how to create a workplace that is welcoming and supportive. The training covers important topics like: Fostering psychological safety Creating a ...

Peer support strategies encompass a range of approaches in which individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges provide guidance, empathy and practical assistance to others navigating ...

I’m in a 4-month peer support worker training. Source: Dara Shevtsova/Pexels It's led by the always encouraging Debbie Sesula, an experienced peer support trainer herself. Though I’ve been offering ...

Peer support for diabetes self-management harnesses the lived experience of people with diabetes to assist others in coping with the clinical, behavioural and psychosocial demands of the condition.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Central Oregon Community College is now authorized to offer the state of Oregon’s certified Peer Support Specialist training. One of the first such programs in the region, the ...

A two-day International Association of Firefighters Peer Support Seminar began Thursday morning with the support of multiple local organizations. Hosted by the Sustainable Opportunity Development ...

“People don’t understand what exactly dispatchers see, hear and go through. You’ve got a lot of dispatchers who shrug it off and say ‘I’m okay. It’s okay. It doesn’t affect me. I can deal with it on ...

Associate Facilitator Jode Freyholtz-London, second from right, conducts trainings for certified peer-support specialists at Wellstone Center in St. Paul. Recent program grads include, left to right, ...

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 ...

Daniel Larson was born into a multigenerational household where addiction was part of the DNA. It began with his grandfather, who Larson said developed a drinking problem after coming over from Norway ...