Peer Support and Wellness Center
An alternative and complementery approach to  traditional mental health services
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The Peer Support, Wellness, and Respite Centers of Georgia are projects of the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network in partnership with and and funded through a contract with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.

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"So You Want To Start a Peer-Run Respite?" Webinar

Wellness Works Initiative

Webinar - Peer Support Wellness Respite Centers

IPS: A Personal Retrospective by Shery Mead

Special Report: Psych Respite Run By Staff Who’ve ‘Been There’

Mental Health Peer-Operated Crisis Respite Programs (pdf)

National Empowerment Center Peer Run Crisis Alternatives

Shery Mead Consulting

Rethinking Psychiatric Crisis: Alternative Responses To "First Breaks"

Reforms to mental health system sought by people who use psychiatric services

How Consumers Step Up to Design a Truly Recovery-based Mental Health System

Psychiatric peer review touted

Peer Support - What Makes it Unique? (pdf)

Consumer/Survivor Coalition Calls for Voluntary, Peer-run Alternatives to Force and Coercion in Mental Health Treatment

SAMHSA: Core Elements in Responding to Mental Health Crises

Warm Lines: Peers Helping Peers

Voices of the Heart program seen as example of
alternative to costly hospitalization

The Future of Peer Support in Florida:
The Respite Center as Crisis Alternative (ppt)

Peer Support and a Socio-Political Response to
Trauma and Abuse by Shery Mead (pdf)




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