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 soon our Emergency Room 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