C. Addressing social problems like homelessness or incarceration

Training and hiring persons in recovery to provide peer support represents a win-win situation for resource-strapped systems. Peer support providers are gainfully employed in a role that supports their own recovery by allowing them to do personally motivated work. Systems gain a trained, effective workforce that pushes providers beyond the basic outcomes of decreased homelessness, incarceration, and hospitalization to include other outcomes that also matter to patients and their loved ones, ie, those associated with reclaiming a meaningful life.

Revisiting the Rationale and Evidence for Peer Support

Cultural Psychiatry

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