At Bon Secours Mercy Health, a peer support program is a key component of healthcare worker well-being efforts. A program that features peer support is helping healthcare workers at Bon Secours Mercy ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s been just ...

NCHC’s Peer Support Workers have lived through their own struggles and are trained to walk alongside you through life’s toughest moments. Meet Neil Goerz, Peer Support Worker at NCHC’s Danville Health ...

A worker with Nova Scotia's new peer support line, which provides a listening ear for people struggling with mental health and addictions challenges, says it's already making a difference for some.

(Reuters Health) - Adults who have been hospitalized for psychiatric problems may be less likely to be readmitted when they get support from other patients who went through similar experiences, a UK ...

GRANTS — Nabor Santiesteban grew up on the streets of New Mexico, spending years with a drug addiction that left him in a wheelchair with a spinal infection while in and out of prison. In 2011, he was ...

As a peer support worker helping vulnerable patients in Toronto’s hectic emergency rooms, Patrick Esenerwa has learned the undeniable power of building connection through lived experience. Esenerwa is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neena MacKinnon says that discussions around FASD should focus on how to provide support to and how to improve the health and ...

Peer support is essential to all walks of life, but when it comes to those living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), the need is greater, say advocates. To that end, the Whitehorse-based ...