$195K state grant will launch new Carroll addiction recovery peer service program ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maximum security prison in Boscobel Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, a maximum security prison where the peer ...

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.

TUCSON, Ariz. - The Tucson Police Department started its deflection program back in 2018, and with the help of peer support specialists with CODAC the program continues to thrive. There are six Tucson ...

THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM WITH MORE PEOPLE REACHING OUT FOR HELP AND ASKING FOR THERAPY TO NAVIGATE THE PRESSURES OF LIFE. SOME SPECIALLY TRAINED WORKERS ARE THERE FOR THEM. THEY’RE TAKING THE PRESSURE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A few weeks from now, the Community Help Center will begin providing services to homeless people who are dealing ...

WISE, Va. (WJHL) — The Virginia Department of Health’s LENOWISCO Health District has nominated James Mills from the Wise ...

Kerman is executive director of Blanchet House in Portland. Last August, I wrote an op-ed outlining the need for a team of mental health and peer-support specialists to regularly circulate among the ...

A New York City job training program is inspiring people to use their mental health struggles and trauma experiences to help others and get paid for it. It’s an eight-month program and there’s a ...

HAMILTON — The RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) Institute for Prevention and Recovery (IFPR) has expanded its Peer Recovery Program to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Hamilton. The program ...

If you are are going through a tough time or difficult life circumstance and can’t find the right person to talk to - someone with “Lived Experience” in mental health, addiction and trauma could make ...

In the fight against the raging opioid crisis, more peer recovery specialists are needed in hospitals across Volusia and Flagler counties, where drug overdose patients arrive in their most vulnerable ...