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Beyond Recovery

This comprehensive guide explores the essential role of peer support in achieving optimal health and wellbeing. Beyond symptom remission, it covers crucial elements like safe housing, gainful employment, and emotional healing. With a focus on empowerment, connection, and holistic care, peer supporters serve as coaches, mentors, and advocates, complementing clinical teams and promoting overall wellness. Learn about the impact of peer support programs and the transformational results they bring to individuals and communities.

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Beyond Recovery

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  1. Beyond Recovery The Indispensable Role of Peer Support in the Journey to Wellbeing

  2. Helping Patients Achieve Their Best Possible Health Symptomremission is only the beginning: • Safe, independent housing • Gainful employment • Meaningful social interaction • Good nutrition • Physical health and activity • Emotional and spiritual wellbeing • Self-monitoring and personal responsibility Hope, empowerment, healing, connection

  3. On any given day • Coach • Mentor • Guide • Educator • Health promoter • Connector to resources • Advocate • Health system navigator • First call for help • Recovery planner • Clinical team adjunct • Role model for what’s possible

  4. Extending the Limits of Clinical Care Peer Roles Dimensions of Wellbeing Emotional Financial Environmental Wellbeing Social Intellectual Physical Spiritual Occupational • Guide, mentor, coach • Advocate, resource connector, educator • Clinical team adjunct • Health promoter • Role model

  5. ValueOptions’ Advanced Commitment to Peer Support

  6. We Have 4 Models Actively Deployed • Peer and Family Support: • Peers work as an adjunct to clinical services • Provide a wide range of guide, advocate, connector services • Peer Warm Lines: • Provide direct communication link and emotional support for patients, families • Make referrals to providers and community services • Prevention, Education, and Outreach: • Community meetings, trainings, events, educational forums • Peer-Run Programs: • Support and capacity building for other community advocacy and peer services

  7. The Range and Depth of our Experience Examples of the 400,000 members touched by peerslast year alone: Connecticut, Illinois, Colorado: Operate “warm lines” for crisis, referral, and resource sharing Tennessee: Work with patients while inpatient or in crisis; peers as an adjunct to clinical staff Colorado: Reversed trend of 65% going to inpatient care; now 90% in community care Florida: Educational forums, “ADHD: Your Child And You” and “Understanding Anti-depressant Treatment” Texas, Maryland: Family support groups, special events sponsor, direct patients to community resources Massachusetts: “Family Partners” gives 1:1 support to parents and caregivers And many more…

  8. What We Know About Results

  9. Significant Evidence That Peers Have Beneficial Impact Satisfaction: • Almost universal satisfaction and appreciation by patients and families Outcomes: • Decrease in symptoms • Increased coping skills and awareness of early warning signs • Fewer hospitalizations, shorter lengths of stay • Improved social functioning • Increased feelings of hopefulness, self-advocacy, empowerment Peer specialists say: “We are the evidence.”

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