Annie Ross has a job that many residents likely don’t know exists. While she’s not a therapist or an otherwise traditionally licensed social worker, her job is to help people with mental health or ...

Peer support training helps employees understand how to create a workplace that is welcoming and supportive. The training covers important topics like: Fostering psychological safety Creating a ...

Public health crises often converge, creating syndemics that exacerbate their collective impact. The intersecting challenges of HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and opioid overdoses illustrate this phenomenon, ...

Jubilee Healing Farm plants 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 ...

Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84 is partnering with other organizations to offer free veteran peer supporter training. The post is joining with Illinois Joining Forces, the Dunham Foundation, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — As part of the 2024 National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) Annual Conference in Oklahoma City, Securus Technologies, a leading provider of technology ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Firefighters in Louisville are getting tools to help them have better ways to cope with the difficult calls they respond to. This week on Monday and Tuesday, firefighters ...

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 ...

LAKELAND — Deaths of first responders to suicide, increased depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other symptoms of mental health trauma have led some fire department leaders to change the ...

SPRINGFIELD — Health Care and Rehabilitation Services, Vermont's second-largest non-profit community mental health agency, is training its adult mental health and addiction services staff in ...

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 ...

Public Health-Muskegon County and Mercy VNS & Hospice Services are looking for parents who went through a miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death to act as peer support for others. A peer support ...