A three-year initiative in California to strengthen student well-being by training high school students to support their ...
“Increasing our skills around talking about the compassion, rigor, and experience needed to cover the toughest stories will make a difference in improving newsroom resilience, wellbeing, and ...
THEY'VE BEEN THERE: From left, Philip Cooper, Jenna Woodman, Dillon Moss and Brandon Manson are part of the peer support specialist team in the Investments Supporting Partnerships in Recovery ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Police officers statistically face the most trauma than anyone else in one lifetime, and now, they too are being given an outlet to help cope with it. Officers with the Charleston ...
Battling addiction and unemployed, Linda Bouchier ended up living on the street for almost a year before she managed to turn her life around thanks to a peer-support program offered by the Aboriginal ...
I’m in a 4-month peer support worker training. Source: Dara Shevtsova/Pexels It's led by the always encouraging Debbie Sesula, an experienced peer support trainer herself. Though I’ve been offering ...
Ashley Belanger-Birt has experienced the power of peer support first-hand — even though she didn't know what it was called at the time. "I ended up in the hospital after a suicide attempt," she ...
Peer-to-peer mental health support programs show early signs of improving student mental health, enhancing student engagement ...