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Peer Respite Handbook: A Guide to Understanding, Supporting and Building Peer Respites

Understanding peer respite is the first key to ensuring that they are developed with integrity, well supported in the community, and accessible to all those who might want to use them. This book provides a comprehensive review of peer respite including: • What is the mission of a peer respite? • Who is it for? • What does a stay at a peer respite look like and how is it different than more conventional services? • What is involved with hiring and developing a peer respite team? • What are some of the likely outcomes and challenges? The entire text of this thoughtful handbook is now available for free HERE. The physical soft cover version can be purchased through via AMAZON.

Intentional Peer Support: An Alternative Approach – First Chapter  

The first chapter of this innovative workbook and curriculum is now available for free HERE.  The full book can be ordered through our Bookstore.

CoReflection Guide CoverCo-Reflection Guide  

Co-Reflection is a vital practice where people come together to reflect upon the IPS tasks and principles in their relationships.  Taken from Intentional Peer Support: An Alternative Approach, the Co-Reflection Guide is now available for free HERE.

Sheri-MeadArticles by Shery Mead

IPS: A Personal Retrospective (Languages: English; Español; Nederlands; Hrvatski; Norsk)

Defining Peer Support (Languages: English; Nederlands)

Crisis and Connection (Languages: English; עִבְרִית)

Peer Support: What Makes It Unique?

Shared Risk: Redefining Safety

Sustaining Intentional Peer Support in Crisis Alternatives

Peer Support as a Socio-Political Response to Trauma and Abuse

Intentional Peer Support as Social Change

Rights, Research, and Liberation

Crisis as an Opportunity for Growth and Change (Languages: English; Nederlands)

Peer Support: A Systemic Approach

Peer Support: A Theoretical Perspective

Discovering the Fidelity Standards of Peer Support in an Ethnographic Evaluation

What Recovery Means To Us

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