What is Peer Connections?
Peer Connections is a monthly e-newsletter that is designed to connect persons in recovery, public and private mental health provider agencies, government and policy makers to issues surrounding the creation of a peer workforce and its impact on the transformation of the mental health service delivery system. This e-newsletter will highlight training and certification options, models of peer delivered services, expanding roles for peers in all phases of mental health and research best practices necessary for cultural change. Peer Connections is produced by the Mental Health Association in New Jersey and Collaborative Support Programs in New Jersey, each nationally recognized for their peer delivered services, training and advocacy. Our main focus will be on the issues facing New Jersey, but we will also share information, program models and resources from across the country. Peer Connections is a work in progress and we welcome our readers in identifying new information and resources t
