What’s Eating Oregon? Peer Respites, The Lund Report & Beyond
peer-run crisis services
Psych Respite Run By Staff Who’ve ‘Been There’
“Locked away in a psychiatric ward, he felt trapped, helpless. Isolated from his loved ones and worthless to society. He was terrified of the injections forced on him. More than anything, he wished someone helping him could have said, ‘I’ve…
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Evidence for Peer-Run Crisis Alternatives
The US-based National Empowerment Center (NEC), says that: “Anecdotal evidence clearly shows that the vast majority of mental health consumers prefer peer-run services to inpatient hospitalisation, and a growing number of evaluations and studies are confirming this. According to a…
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