VRN Addiction Recovery Peer Support Services
Also known as Peer-to-Peer Recovery Support Services
Peer Recovery Support Services include:
Recovery Coaches, Telephone Recovery Support Volunteers, Pathways Guides and our Emergency Department Peer Support Service
What Are Peer Recovery Support Services?
Our Shared Values include:
- Keeping recovery first
- Cultural diversity and inclusion
- Participatory process
- Authenticity of peers helping peers
- Leadership development
Peer Recovery Support Services that meet needs of people at different stages of the recovery process. The services may:
- Precede formal treatment, strengthening a peer’s motivation for change
- Accompany treatment, providing a community connection during treatment
- Follow treatment, supporting relapse prevention
- Be delivered apart from treatment to someone who cannot enter the formal treatment system or chooses not to do so.
Peer Recovery Support Services:
Interacting with peers who have the lived experience of addiction and successful recovery and are supportive of recovery, they may help reduce relapse risk. They can facilitate…
- Acquisition of coping skills
- Maintenance of recovery motivation
- Serve as a healthy recovery role model
- Provide community service
- linkages and emotional support