The Role of Peer Providers In Integrated Health

In March 2014, the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions published a PowerPoint presentation on roles played by peer support specialists in integrated health. Key roles in integrated health include: linkage to clinical and community resources, assistance in activation of self-management, and provision of ongoing social and emotional support. Topics covered include: 1) Strengths peer providers bring to integrated health programs for system transformation; 2) Skills peer providers are trained to deliver; 3) Three stages for agency implementation of peer providers; and 4) Randomized trial outcomes showing significant impact on improving health . . .