Jubilee Healing Farmplants a seed within students, patients and in the ground to heal and grow. “I just was struck by this dream of being able to provide behavioral health care in a farm-based setting ...

THEY'VE BEEN THERE: From left, Philip Cooper, Jenna Woodman, Dillon Moss and Brandon Manson are part of the peer support specialist team in the Investments Supporting Partnerships in Recovery ...

Associate Facilitator Jode Freyholtz-London, second from right, conducts trainings for certified peer-support specialists at Wellstone Center in St. Paul. Recent program grads include, left to right, ...

A change in Kentucky's licensing standards for substance use recovery peer support specialists is set to take effect at the ...

Last month, Central Oregon Community College in Bend launched a four-week-long training course for students to become certified peer support specialists. A peer support specialist is someone with ...

When Alicia Doty was in a Shakopee prison for drug-related charges stemming from her methamphetamine addiction, volunteers who had once shared her experience visited during her 1 1/2-year sentence.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Central Oregon Community College is now authorized to offer the state of Oregon’s certified Peer Support Specialist training. One of the first such programs in the region, the ...

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

Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, a maximum security prison where the peer specialist program started. | Photo courtesy Wisconsin Department of Corrections William Bowers is incarcerated ...