What is Peer Support?

Peer support encompasses a range of activities and interactions between people who share similar experiences of being diagnosed with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, or both. This mutuality between a peer support worker and person in or seeking recovery promotes connection and inspires hope. 

Peer support offers a level of acceptance, understanding, and validation not found in many other professional relationships (Mead & McNeil, 2006). By sharing their own lived experience and practical guidance, peer support workers help people to develop their own goals, create strategies for self-empowerment, and take concrete steps towards building fulfilling, self-determined lives for themselves.​

​Value of Peers Infographics: General Peer Support (samhsa.gov)​

What are Peer Recovery Coaches?

A Peer Recovery Coach is someone who helps promote recovery from addiction by removing barriers and obstacles and by serving as a personal guide and mentor for people seeking or in recovery.

As a Peer Recovery Coach, our roles are to be a motivator/cheerleader, ally/confidant, truth-teller, role model/motivator, problem solver, resource broker, advocate, community organizer, lifestyle consultant, friend/companion.
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Our Peer Recovery Coaches service Jay, Blackford, Delaware, Randolph, Huntington, Wells, and Adams County. These coaches can provide support for FREE to anyone in need of recovery services and resources. 

Can you or someone you know benefit from having a Peer Recovery Coach? Contact Josh, our Peer Recovery Supervisor.