Bringing Peer Support To Scale In Service Delivery

The value that peer support specialists (PSS)—a person who has lived-experience with mental illness and/or addiction recovery and combines that with training to deliver services in behavioral health settings—is well documented. These PSS provide a path to lower relapse rates, social support, social functioning, decreased psychotic symptoms, and reduced hospitalization rates (see Peer Support Groups In Addiction Treatment Boost Odds Of Long-Term Recovery). Currently, about 51% of health and human service specialty provider organizations have adopted PSS in their organization (see The 2017 OPEN MINDS National Innovation Survey: Innovation Adoption Among Specialty Provider Organizations).

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