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
• MAT Guides
• Our Emergency Department Peer Support Service

Learn more about what peer recovery support services are.

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