What Is Peer Support?

A facilitator should know and understand the value of peer support, how it works, and what peer support looks like.

More information:

6 Ways Peer Support Can Improve your Health (Heart and Stroke Canada): A list of six reasons that peer support is a useful tool.
Value of Peer Support (NESTA UK): A case study about Steve, a peer support group leader since 2016.
Code of Conduct (Peer Support Canada): A one-page list of ‘I will’ statements that facilitators should agree to.
Values, Principles and Ethics of Peer Support (Canadian Mental Health Association): An overview of the core beliefs that peer support is based on.