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Today we'll be talking about peer-to-peer support services
for mental and substance use disorders.
One of the major things that peer support does is it gets
the individual who is being supported the opportunity to
get shared life experiences from a person who has sustained
recovery or has had long-term recovery.
So that's where the peer recovery advocate or the
peer recovery coach comes in, to be able to effectively share
their experiences with them, to say, like,
"Look, I've experienced what you are experiencing,
the same anxieties the same fears that you have,
I've had, this is how I was able to transition from
point A to point B."
When we talk about recovery-oriented systems of
care, you can't do it without people in recovery,
you can't do it without the organized recovery community,
because where does recovery live?
It lives where we live.
It lives in our hearts.
It lives on our streets.
It lives in our communities.
And we bring that valuable experience to that whole
ROSC recovery-oriented systems-of-care equation.
So many people, when they come into systems, just
come away with these really kind of hopeless messages, like,
"This is going to be the way it is for you for the rest of
your life, just accept that you can't really dream big, or
achieve much," and our peer recovery movement is just
kind of completely blowing that out of the water and says,
"No, there's a life in the community that's possible-
Absolutely.
for everyone."