#peersupport — Public Fediverse posts
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For parents who feel blamed, isolated, or unsure what to do next.
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Show Me Where It Hurts
I have been building and moderating conversation on the internet since the internet had conversation worth moderating, and one quarrel from those years has never let me put it down. It happened on Reddit, in one of the medical-advice communities, the ask-a-doctor kind, and the room's name has dissolved from memory while its images have refused to leave. People arrived with photographs of their own fresh cuts and posted them for assessment, and the moderators split over what they were looking at. One camp called the pictures fine in a medical setting: a patient presenting an injury to doctors, the oldest transaction in medicine arriving through a new door. The other camp read performance, attention pursued through injury, and wanted every image gone. I stood with the second camp's verdict while distrusting its reasoning, because the deletion seemed right to me for a reason neither camp was saying: whatever any single poster intended, the gallery was awe-inspiring to the wrong eyes. I could not have defended that instinct with numbers then, and now I can, so here is the argument laid out in full, the folk theory measured, the audience counted, the room itself put on the scale. […] -
I've been sitting with this news all morning — federal reimbursement for peer support services is now real. For those of us in the recovery world, peer specialists are the bridge between clinical treatment and real life. They've been doing the work for decades without the funding to match. Today, the system took a step toward valuing what they already do.
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💙 Thank you for making PCB Presents a success once again!
Special thanks to Mary Beth Parks of LAMP, the PCB Peer Engagement Team, ACB Community, ACB Media, and every peer who joined us.
Your participation keeps us learning and connected!
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To support our peers, prioritize conversations over stories. Here's why events and associations should prioritize interaction.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/associations-2/2025/06/power-peer-conversation/
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For parents who feel blamed, isolated, or unsure what to do next. Join the YMHC Not Okay at School Parent Peer Support Group. www.ymhc.ngo/noas
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A safe space with safe people to get support from others, ideas on how to navigate for support, and resources, knowledge and strategies to manage. Join the YMHC Not Okay at School Parent Peer Support Group.
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For parents who feel blamed, isolated, or unsure what to do next.
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Back-to-School Anxiety: Strategies to Manage
#schoolanxiety #schoolattendancechallenges #studentmentalhealth #anxiety #copingskills #healthyhabits #peersupport #ymhc -
‘Lived experience of mental health struggles is a kind of expertise that traditional medical and psychiatric training cannot replicate. These experts can empathize with mental health struggles in ways that clinical experts without lived experience simply cannot.’ https://www.madinamerica.com/2026/08/peer-support-is-gaining-recognition-but-systemic-barriers-remain/ #Peersupport #MentalHealth #Health
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“One of the great things that any community can do is not teach tolerance, but live tolerance, not talk respect, but live inclusivity.” ~ Michael Pritchard
#compassion #peersupport #schools #community #ymhc -
A safe space with safe people to get support from others, ideas on how to navigate for support, and resources, knowledge and strategies to manage
#studentmentalhealth #schoolanxiety #schoolattendancechallenges #peersupport #ymhc -
For parents who feel blamed, isolated, or unsure what to do next. Join the YMHC Not Okay at School Parent Peer Support Group
#schoolanxiety #schoolattendancechallenges #schoolavoidance #schoolabsenteeism #educationsupportteam #schoolwidestrategy #youreducationmatters #SchoolAttendance #ymhc #peersupport #parents -
Connect through compassion. Daily supportive messages foster connection and belonging. They are part of YMHC’s mission to support well-being. https://ymhc.ngo/dms
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Sign up for daily support. Our free service sends you a message of encouragement every morning. A simple way to feel connected and remind yourself that you are not alone. https://ymhc.me/dms
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Choose connection. Our service shares daily words of compassion. It’s a gentle way to build a supportive culture around mental health. https://ymhc.ngo/dms
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Step into the day with strength. Our daily messages are crafted to inspire resilience. This small step creates ripples of compassion in schools and communities. https://ymhc.ngo/dms
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Hope is for everyone. No matter who you are, a daily message of support can help. https://ymhc.ngo/dms
#motivation #inspiration #positivevibes #mentalwellbeing #mentalhealth #mentalwellness #hope #ymhc #peersupport -
Share love with your child. YMHC Heart to Heart Campaign. https://ymhc.me/hearts
#HearttoHeart #HearttoHeartCampaign #SewingHope #HandmadeHearts #HeartsForHope #YouMatter #MentalHealthSupport #CommunityCare #StudentWellBeing #YouthMentalHealth #CaringCommunities #ymhc #makehopehappen #compassion #peersupport -
“When a flashlight grows dim or stops working, we don’t throw it away; we give it what it needs to shine again. When a young person is struggling, we respond with support, connection, and care.”
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Together we can do great things! By @milkyprint
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Hope delivered to you. Receive a daily message of support straight to your inbox. A reminder that you are valued, connected, and not alone. https://ymhc.ngo/dms
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One message can make a difference. https://ymhc.ngo/dms
#motivation #inspiration #positivevibes #mentalwellbeing #mentalhealth #hope #ymhc #communitycare #compassion #peersupport -
Connect through compassion. https://ymhc.ngo/dms
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To support our peers, prioritize conversations over stories. Here's why events and associations should prioritize interaction.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/associations-2/2025/06/power-peer-conversation
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WELCOME TO OUR QRIB
Willow River Centre and Spectrum’s Black, Racialized and Indigenous Queers (BRIQ) House are co-organizing a series of events called QRIB (Queer, Racialized, Indigenous and Black) community hangouts to help foster a safer community for self-identifying queer, racialized, Indigenous and Black individuals.
The two organizations started hosting these hangouts last year from Aug. 9 to Dec 13. Initially focused on karaoke, the hangouts have since evolved to include other community-focused activities like bonfires and discussion circles.
The name “QRIB” is a play on words for the word crib and was chosen to evoke a sense of home or gathering space. The Willow-River Centre, an event venue based in Kitchener, played a key role by offering a space designed for the Indigenous and racialized queer population, incorporating culturally specific elements, local art and non-hierarchical, healing-focused community values, instead of clinical or colonial support models.
“They bring a sense of safety for a lot of Indigenous and queer people locally,” Karla Gomez, a facilitator of the QRIB hangout, said.
Spectrum provides funding and support, including food and resources at hangouts. Though the organization wasn’t initially inclusive, recent leadership changes made it more committed to reconciliation and community prioritization.
“The hangouts are non-hierarchical, free, and community-led, fostering healing and connection in ways that feel safe and liberating to those involved,” Roni Noodle, a director of the QRIB hangouts, said.
Noodle also explained how QRIB is unique in Kitchener-Waterloo, and no other local spaces offer the same intersectional support for 2SLGBTQIA+ and racialized individuals. Noodle described BRIQ House as another supportive space for Indigenous and queer people in the area but noted it holds a different relationship with the community compared to Willow River Centre. Although Spectrum started hosting QRIB hangouts to create a more inclusive space, it’s not a space designed for racialized, Black and Indigenous individuals. Even though they’re attempting to change, they decided a partnership with Willow River Centre will help them.
“It’s a space where you don’t need to translate your soul. It’s designed with you in mind,” Roni said.
They said that people from within the racialized or queer community are not always comfortable in public spaces and they do not feel acknowledged or seen, but this is a space where those individuals can feel comfort and express themselves more freely.
Noodle explained that last year’s QRIB hangouts went very well. However, Spectrum’s director changed earlier this year and the two organizations were not sure if they had funding for the hangouts this year. However, the new director was very supportive of the events.
“Events like this are too important to the community for us not to prioritize funding for it,” Gomez said.
She said events such as the QRIB hangout need to exist, saying that Spectrum continues to show commitment to supporting these hangouts, by applying for funding for racialized Indigenous Queers.
These events have had a successful turnout so far, with returning participants and new individuals joining the hangout, these events also address local issues revolving around the racialized, queer, and Indigenous communities such as peer support, food insecurity, loneliness, and isolation.
#2SLGBTQIA_ #Black #colonialSupportModel #FoodInsecurity #healingFocused #Indigenous #Isolation #karlaGomez #KitchenerWaterloo #LocalArt #loneliness #PeerSupport #qrib #queer #racialized #RoniNoodle #SafeSpace #SangjunHan #Spectrum #WillowRiverCentre
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#MadLiterature
Available for pre order:A Mad Turn
Edited by Phil SmithWritten by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.
https://autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/a-mad-turn
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#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
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#Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum——
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I’m interested in memoirs, blogs etcetera telling stories of resilience, surviving psychiatry, trauma (developmental). Please share them if you know any.
#MadLiteratureLisa Wallace on why she left psychiatric care and why she may return one day
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#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
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#Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum——
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The Soteria model relies on personal relationships, interactive activities, and minimal use of psychiatric medication within a comfortable “living community” as opposed to a conventional psychiatric setting.
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How Does the Soteria House Heal?
The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/09/soteria-house-heal/
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#Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
#MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad#Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
#Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum
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@disability
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