Peer Support
Hearing Our Voices: Peer Support and Mental Illness (TEDx Talk)
When trying to solve this problem of lack of support for college students with mental illness, many people look to outsiders with specific credentials; but Project LETS believes that a solution lies with the very
A Case Study of the Peer-Run Crisis Respite Organizing Process in Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, a group of consumers, called Groundhogs, organized themselves in early 2009 to design, lobby for, and implement PRCRs in the state. Groundhogs has had relative success to date. Recent meetings with high-ranking officials
The Need for Size Equality in the Mental Health Recovery Movement: Ways that Peer/Recovery Activists Can Do Better on Issues of Sizeism, Diet Culture, and Eating Disorders
One of the values of peer support and mental health recovery is cultural sensitivity and diversity. An important form of diversity that often goes overlooked is body size diversity. In order for the recovery movement
Voices of Transformation: Developing Recovery-Based Statewide Consumer/Survivor Organizations
The Voices of Transformation: Developing Recovery-Based Statewide Consumer Organizations manual has been developed by the National Empowerment Center (NEC) and the Recovery Consortium, who worked together to share their experiences in building viable and effective
Funding the Movement
A guide to social justice fundraising by Ellen Osborne and Heather Peck, VOCAL - VA [Click here to download (PDF, 3.84MB, 74 pages)]
From Relief to Recovery
Peer Support by Consumers Relieves the Traumas of Disasters and Facilitates Recovery from Mental Illness. By Daniel Fisher, National Empowerment Center (NEC), with assistance from Kay Rote, Oklahoma; LaVerne Miller, New York; David Romprey, Oregon;