Written by Chance McNeely
What is peer support?
Surrounding yourself with empathic people “who get it” is a great tool for anyone enduring life’s ups and downs. Achieving this can be difficult, though, especially for people who suffer from mental health challenges. The concept of peer support has been around for decades and, in 2007, the service was officially established as being “evidence-based” by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This simply means that evidence shows a substantive, positive correlation between peer support and long-term recovery. Over the past 15 years, peer support has grown as a profession where individuals with lived experience contribute to the recovery of others in a variety of settings: from long-term, in-patient facilities to private, telehealth peer services and everything in between.
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