The Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery (MHARS) Board of Lorain County will host a 40-hour, in-person Peer Recovery Supporter training from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 9-13 at the Amy H. Levin ...

This interview accompanies the third podcast in our National Recovery Month series with Kim MacDonald-Wilson, ScD, CPRP, senior program director, Recovery and Wellness Transformation, and Tracy Carney ...

Jubilee Healing Farm plants a seed within students, patients and in the ground to heal and grow. “I just was struck by this dream of being able to provide behavioral health care in a farm-based ...

Adolescent me. At the library. Looking at a bulletin board. It had been a rough year for me and my mental health with hospitalizations, intensive outpatient, medications, and therapy. I often wondered ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Like many big ideas, Hope on Purpose, a peer support partnership between the ...

Traumatic and stressful events will always be a part of health care. According to the US Department of Veteran Affairs’ Stress First Aid Model for healthcare, stressors can sometimes lead to emotional ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. A year ago, Jode Freyholtz-London knew that something big needed to happen if she ...

Peer recovery specialists have been key to helping many people struggling with addiction, but Minnesota lawmakers are considering safeguards to prevent bad actors in a growing field that has had ...

When he was a counselor, Michael Cunningham fielded a lot of questions about his own experiences with drugs and alcohol. At the time, he didn’t share much of his story with clients. But now, as a peer ...