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

Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 is partnering with other organizations to offer free veteran peer supporter training. The post is joining with Illinois Joining Forces, the Dunham Foundation, ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO - First responders training to help themselves through tragedy with peer support training, and one firefighter in particular who said this training helping him move on from a major tragedy ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Police officers statistically face the most trauma than anyone else in one lifetime, and now, they too are being given an outlet to help cope with it. Officers with the Charleston ...

Jubilee Healing Farm plants a seed within students, patients and in the ground to heal and grow. “I just was struck by this dream of being able to provide behavioral health care in a farm-based ...

The NYPD launched its peer support program in September, training officers who volunteered their time to become counselors to their colleagues. The program comes as 10 NYPD officers have taken their ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Firefighters in Louisville are getting tools to help them have better ways to cope with the difficult calls they respond to. This week on Monday and Tuesday, firefighters ...

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 ...

LAKELAND — Deaths of first responders to suicide, increased depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other symptoms of mental health trauma have led some fire department leaders to change the ...

River Edge Behavioral Health has opened a new Adult Peer Support and Community Integration Center in Macon, offering peer support, life skills training and wellness services for adults with mental ...

The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office hosted its first “Basic Peer Support & Suicide Prevention” training class last Monday and Tuesday. This class provided training to 26 personnel representing five ...