Peer Support
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;
An Evaluation of Peer-Delivered Mental Health Disaster Relief Services in New York City – by Hardiman, et al. May 2005.
This is an evaluation of the impact of peer delivered mental health services as part of Project Liberty following 9/11. The services offered included outreach-based individual counseling, group counseling, public education, and warmline telephone support
Guidebooks from the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Paving New Ground: Peers Working in In-Patient Settings. The guidebook is 110 pages, and an excellent resource on Peer Support Recovery. (PDF, 934KB) Comfort Rooms by Gayle Bluebird (PDF of a PowerPoint, 35 pages, 610KB)