For many veterans, recovery from mental health challenges, substance use, trauma or major life transitions does not begin ...

Peer Support Specialists expand the non-clinical workforce to improve patient experience and outcomes and reduce clinical staff burnout.

The law, which took effect Jan. 1, sets new licensing standards for peer support specialists to be employed in many drug and alcohol treatment settings. It triggered the apparently unintended cut-off ...

The National Fraternal Order of Police conducted peer support training this week at the Resiliency Center in downtown ...

According to the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM), healing is our birthright. But, Black folks often face challenges when trying to access sustainable healthcare for our emotional ...

A judge on Friday declined to enjoin enforcement of a state law that governs the licensing of alcohol and drug counselors and ...

MIAMI — 4 Investigates traveled to Florida to see firsthand the Miami program that helped inspire New Mexico’s new behavioral health reform law — and to understand what state policymakers saw before ...

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 ...

GRANTS — Nabor Santiesteban grew up on the streets of New Mexico, spending years with a drug addiction that left him in a wheelchair with a spinal infection while in and out of prison. In 2011, he was ...

A gender non-conforming young adult from northern California was recognized this week for their work helping other youth in troubled times. Eureka resident Qaiel Peltier was one of found people ...