The Peer Network
Building the future for people with lived experience of mental health issues...
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Our dream is to ensure that anyone struggling with
mental health issues who wants peer support will be able to find it!
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Mission
Ensuring quality mental health and wellness peer resources by growing sustainable mental health peer-run organizations.
Vision
A
mentally
healthy
world!
The Peer Network:
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- Peer Networking Opportunities
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The Peer Network ...
Setting The Standards
The Peer Network is an authorized CEU provider under the Texas Certifying Board.
The Peer Network (TPN) is a nonprofit organization created to grow sustainable peer-run organizations.
An organization that supports mental health peer-run organizations to succeed in their mission. By supporting emerging and established entities through performance and fidelity standards, TPN promotes effective and result producing peer-run entities.
Mental Health Peer-Run Organizations are:
- Autonomous
- Peer-governed
- Peer Run
- Peer Support
- Evidence based as per Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Peer-Run organizations serve a unique and valuable role in mental health recovery services.
What is Peer Support ?
Peer support encompasses a range of activities and interactions between people who share similar experiences of being diagnosed with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, or both. This mutuality—often called “peerness”—between a peer support worker and person in or seeking recovery promotes connection and inspires hope.
Peer support offers a level of acceptance, understanding, and validation not found in many other professional relationships (Mead & McNeil, 2006). By sharing their own lived experience and practical guidance, peer support workers help people to develop their own goals, create strategies for self-empowerment, and take concrete steps towards building fulfilling, self- determined lives for themselves.
SAMHSA 2017
Outcomes for Peer Support from Peer Run Organizations are:
- Provides ready access to recovery supports
- Fills the gap in services for people who are awaiting help in the public and private systems
- Produces quality outcomes for the people supported and their immunities\
- Role-models recovery and HOPE
- Improvement in Quality of Life
- Person-directed
- Building Trust, Connections, and Purpose
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