A three-year initiative in California to strengthen student well-being by training high school students to support their ...

Lamoille County Mental Health Services (LCMHS) has been providing peer support for many years now. This is groundbreaking work in the emerging climate of the mental health landscape. Peer support is ...

Life is too difficult to go it alone. But in this vast openness of social media, being alone is even more isolating. But the ...

Once sustained on shoestring budgets, peer-run mental health spaces are expanding across North Carolina as state and local leaders invest in programs led by people with lived experience.

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. It’s hard enough to find a qualified therapist, but imagine being deaf and ...

Gracia Deras had just delivered her first child when the dark cloud that had nagged her during pregnancy began to overtake her. She lacked the energy to care for herself—much less her newborn son—and ...

“People don’t understand what exactly dispatchers see, hear and go through. You’ve got a lot of dispatchers who shrug it off and say ‘I’m okay. It’s okay. It doesn’t affect me. I can deal with it on ...

Adolescent me. At the library. Looking at a bulletin board. It had been a rough year for me and my mental health with hospitalizations, intensive outpatient, medications, and therapy. I often wondered ...

The breadth and depth of challenges faced by the fire service is significant. Among these struggles are cancer risks, budget constraints, vehicle maintenance, overtime costs and a laundry list of ...

Peer-to-peer support provided by ‘veteran’ neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents to those with current NICU babies is a legitimate and unique form of support that can complement or supplement, ...