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Mental Health Humor: Duck, Duck, Goose! and Recovery Peer Specialist info by chatobstewart .. Patient Expert /or email feed . Subscribe to Mental Health Humor by Email or RSS FEED How To Support Us: Visiting..., jokes, Mental Health cartoons, mental health humor. Ask me about Recovery Peer,Recovery Peer...
ON how peer support works by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional The article below is a great exploration of peer support. Mental Health Matters: Peer support staple of recovery – MariettaTimes.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Ohio, Community Information – The Marietta
On giving peer support a real future by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional I see two diverging processes evident in the mental health system right now.  On the one hand, there is more and more support for the idea that peer support is a viable and even an intergral part of the effective deliverary...
Peer support in Tennessee by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional it seems when mental health funds are cut they are never added back later. The toe hold that peer support... On March 1 hundreds of mental health advocates will converge on the Tennessee State Legislature...
Is recovery realistic: the future of peer support in Tennessee by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional The Future of Peer Services in Tennessee The concept of peer support services... to find a way to diversify the funding for peer support by trying to establish it as a Tenncare eligible service...
ON peer support specialists by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional The role of peer support specialist is one of the most promising in some of the new paradigms... in life. I have heard more and more reports of peer support specialists trying to form their own groups...
Moms who lack support are at greater risk of poor mental health by Nancy B. children have more than three times the risk of mental health problems than their peers if they feel they are missing emotional support in caring for their children. What's more, a mother's mental health...
The Need For Mental Health Support Groups Is As Strong As Ever by Kate K. Patient Expert mental health support groups.  Of all those things, the one thing that doesn't require much money... the wide spread of mental health support groups. I have stressed the importance of support groups...
Mental Health America of GA seeks endorsement for coalition to fix our broken public mental health system by Atlanta Mom .. Patient Expert Director of MHA of GA, and her colleagues in the GA Mental Health community are seeking endorsements... contact her or leave a comment here. Revival of Georgia's Mental Health and Addictive Disease Services...
Mental Health Humor: Mid-Night Insanity - Mental Health Humor: Mid-Night Insanity - You Can’t Spill, no I mean SPELL by chatobstewart .. Patient Expert /or email feed . Subscribe to Mental Health Humor by Email or RSS FEED How To Support Us: Visiting..., jokes, Mental Health cartoons, mental health humor. Ask me about Recovery Peer,Recovery Peer...

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The Dream Continues
I am back for another semester of college and continuing my work as a peer support specialist. I am excited because a young man in my wellness class is using the tools he learned from my class to help... people with mental illnesses. I printed out my resume and am feeling very confident. This weekend...crap

A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Peer support is an incomparable asset that speeds one’s recovery.  In February 2002, I joined... out of the NAMI Care peer support model, which has been updated and refined and is now called NAMI Connection... if it has a peer support group or you could start one.  Two of the principles that are foremost in my mind...crap

Body Positive: A History Of Service
who understood. Finding Body Positive and the peer support they offer changed my life and helped me gain... became clearer: Provide information and support. Use peers -- people living with or affected by HIV..., with support from the New York City Department of Health. That same year, the United Hospital Fund recognized...crap

peer led support groups
I am working on a project where we are putting together a manual for peer run support groups for individuals with HIV/AIDS who are also mental health consumers. I want to locate organizations that are currently involved in peer run support groups to find out what kind of training,support they are providing...crap

California: Volunteers Sought to Lead Bay Area HIV Support Groups
Friday, Jan. 7 is the application deadline for persons wishing to become facilitators of peer-led support groups with the University of California-San Francisco's AIDS Health Project. Qualified volunteers will participate in a weekend-long training session in late January that explores the fundamentals of support group...crap

The Dreaded Peer Pressure
I wanted to talk a little about peer pressure today. I feel that this is one of the hardest...'ve been sharing comments back and forth with a few HealthCentral users and the conversation has turned to alcohol... was to give up all alcohol for one month, as a way to test myself and my commitment to health. For me, drinking leads...crap

Part-time Paid Peer Facilitator Positions in NYC
, and skills necessary to improve their health, support their immune system, increase treatment adherence, reduce risk behaviors, and develop health supporting routines.

Peer Facilitators... will receive a stipend.


In Fall 2011, the New York City Department of Health and Mental...crap

Peer-to-Peer Healthcare
at Stanford University. With a scholarship from Stanford and further support from HealthCentral, I was able... about health.” Peer-to-peer healthcare assumes that any of us have knowledge that we can share... media for support with our health problems. People like you and me. That’s why we’re here at Health...crap

The Working Life On the Job: Peer Advocate
for people with mental illnesses. Her experiences could inspire you to consider this field. A peer... the legal end. On the spectrum of jobs in the mental health field, you could also be a social worker or... For this "On the Job: Peer Advocate" entry, I interviewed someone who works at Baltic Street AEH...crap

Breaking News: Peer-Run Respite Care
in cost to a vacation: in terms of mental health care, her program would be Hampton Beach rather than Bermuda. The Department of Mental Health, the coveted source of $300,000 for the first three-bed center... in a hospital or by peers at a respite center? Daniel B. Fisher, a psychiatrist in Massachusetts...crap