Background: PAL began in 1980, combining peer assistance and peer leadership strategies originally developed in the late 1970s. Over the past 15 years, these basic prevention strategies have been expanded, evolving the peer helping program from an informal, extracurricular activity in a single school district to a formally structured, curriculum-based program that has been adopted by […]
Peer support
Christians in Recovery: Peer Support Program
Objective: To link those in recovery with their peers, while providing a Christian foundation. Description: Christians in Recovery, offered through the Second Baptist Church of Atlantic City, works to assist individuals struggling with addiction to better access health insurance and formal outpatient and inpatient drug and alcohol programs. Because it is a peer model, the lived […]
Aslan Youth Ministries Third World Extreme: Community Service Program for At-Risk Youth
Objective: To provide relationship-driven programs that permanently impact the bodies, minds and spirits of at-risk urban children. Description: Aslan Youth Ministries is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Red Bank, New Jersey. For the past 37 years, they have provided community outreach programs to impoverished areas in Monmouth County. Aslan’s programs include one-on-one mentoring and tutoring, character […]
Service Outreach and Recovery
Objective: Reduce drug and alcohol use and increase participation in formal substance abuse treatment programs and 12-step self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Description: Service Outreach and Recovery (SOAR), a multicomponent program for indigent and residentially unstable clients, targets individuals at soup kitchens who acknowledge current or past substance abuse problems. The […]
Feria de Salud: Behavioral Health Fair on the Affordable Care Act & Health Exchanges
Objective: To support, connect and assist consumers to live healthy and improve their quality of life through community resources or services; to help consumers understand the Affordable Care Act Description: Albuquerque Center for Hope & Recovery (ACHR) organized and hosted the first Feria de Salud (behavioral health fair) in New Mexico centered on healthcare reform […]
Atlantic Cape Family Support Organization: Hospital Companion Program
Objective: Provide peer support for parents while they are in psychiatric screening with their child. Description: Taking your child to the hospital due to a psychiatric emergency can be very confusing and scary. The process is long, there are many people asking questions and terminology can be difficult to understand. Families can also be very anxious […]