NYAPRS, in collaboration with The College for Behavioral Health Leadership, is very pleased to sponsor a two-part online seminar series titled "Intensity, Lived Experience and Crisis: Activating Peer Support for a Transformed Mental Health Crisis Response System."
While much progress has been made to develop a modern array of 'crisis services' including mobile crisis units, hospital diversion programs and 'crisis call centers' through and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network, the integration of people with lived experience of suicide and crisis as peer support providers, though, has been slow to advance.
Peer support can and should play an active role at many points in the transformation of crisis response systems, including those driven by the national 988 line initiative