The National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, is a nationally recognized grassroots organization with chapters across the United States focused on destigmatizing mental illness and creating ...

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The local organization of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, will host peer recovery support groups starting in January. The NAMI Connection Peer Recovery Support Group is a ...

Lamoille County Mental Health Services (LCMHS) has been providing peer support for many years now. This is groundbreaking work in the emerging climate of the mental health landscape. Peer support is ...

When Alicia Doty was in a Shakopee prison for drug-related charges stemming from her methamphetamine addiction, volunteers who had once shared her experience visited during her 1 1/2-year sentence.

Peer-to-peer mental health support programs show early signs of improving student mental health, enhancing student engagement, and reducing stigma in California high schools, according to a report by ...

Johns Hopkins University Human Resources is introducing a new initiative to expand peer-to-peer support and strengthen awareness of mental health resources across the institution.

It can be a difficult task to support an individual struggling with mental illness when you don't understand it. Mental health is complicated and non-linear with unpredictable symptoms that can be ...

City leaders are ramping up efforts to address youth mental illness by looking to peer-led efforts and student support groups. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams previewed four proposals to address ...

There’s a quiet sea change underway in some mental health care settings in Massachusetts and beyond — and it often looks a lot different from therapy. People who’ve struggled with bipolar disorder, ...

The free-of-charge program pairs clients with mentors who themselves are in recovery, or otherwise have suffered from substance abuse.

Promise Resource Network on Tuesday opened a peer-run “recovery café” in downtown Raleigh to support people with mental illness and substance-use disorders outside hospitals and treatment centers.