Peer & Parent Peer Support
Reimagining Support for Our Community
Our Certified Peer and Parent Peer Support Specialists offer a compassionate and non-judgmental space to connect with people who share similar lived experiences. This is not a replacement for therapy, but a powerful complement to your wellness journey, focused on mutual empowerment, respect, and understanding.
All peer support services are at no cost to participants and appointments can be conducted over the phone, virtually, or in person.
What is a peer supporT specialist?
A Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) offers peer support to people receiving services related to mental health and/or substance use challenges. CPS bring their own valuable expertise and skill-sets and use that to connect with the peers they serve.
A CPS is a person who has their own lived experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges and has completed formal training and certification. They use their unique set of lived experiences and recovery, in combination with comprehensive skills-training, including continuing education, to support people with similar lived experience.
What is a parent peer supporT specialist?
A Certified Parent Peer Specialist (CPPS) combines knowledge gained from parenting children and youth with social, emotional, behavioral, mental health and/or substance use challenges and training to increase their skills to support other parents or those in a parenting role.
A CPPS upports families they serve in recognizing and fostering their own resiliency, provides information about resources relevant to their needs, and facilitates family-directed services, goal-setting, and communicating effectively with providers.
meet our peer support specialists
Please call 608-249-7188 during office hours to speak directly to Sharon or Oleka.