Dedicated to supporting families in mental health and recovery, fostering resilience, and building hope.
Our Purpose
Peer Specialist Limited ensures our services are offered with respect and dignity while acknowledging family strengths, honoring self-determination, needed resources, and preferences for engagement. Peer Specialists Limited purpose is to support recovery in the community for persons who are experiencing mental health, substance use, and/or co-occurring needs (both adults and youth) through the provision of services and interventions, utilizing peer specialists and their lived experience.
Our Mission
The Peer Specialist Limited mission is to advance the work, practice, and utilization of individuals with lived experience in supporting wellness and recovery of those with mental health and substance use needs.
Central to our delivery of services are our core values and practices.
Strength-Based Approach: Emphasizes finding and using one’s own personal strengths and attributes to advance personal growth.
Trauma-Informed Care: Acknowledges that care is a complete picture of an individual’s life situation (past-present) for effective care.
Community-Centered: Coordinated approach to address needs in a community setting.
Person-Driven: Supports individuals to discover an approach that helps them discover their own strategies to meet their individualized needs.
Cultural Competence: Focus on sensitivity to cross cultural differences in the delivery of services.
Welcoming and Safe Environment: Welcome families, embrace their strengths and needs, and cultivate a safe environment where families are embraced, respected, and provided the opportunity to grow and thrive.