Youth Peer Support: From Lived Experience to Systems Change
Youth peer support is increasingly recognized as an important component of the children's behavioral health continuum. Peers can offer young people connection, hope, shared experience, and support from individuals who have navigated similar challenges.
However, effective youth peer support requires more than creating individual peer roles. It depends on the organizations and systems behind them.
This webinar will bring together leaders who are building and running youth peer support programs and systems. Speakers will share how their organizations operate, the lessons they have learned, and the policy, planning, workforce, implementation, financing, and sustainability challenges they face in developing strong youth peer support systems.
Chair: Johanna Bergan, Co-Deputy Director, National Training & Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health, Program Manager, Innovations Institute
Speakers :
Delvina Miremadi-Baldino, PhD, Executive Director, Maine Youth Thrive (Maine)
Quinn Atlas Jannetty, Program Manager & Peer Support Specialist (Connecticut)
