This Is Your Life - A Peer Support Group
Course Description
Program: Personal Development Program
Length: Open-ended
Time: One and half-hours once a week
Rationale
For years, consumers have reported the many benefits of self-help groups and scientific research demonstrates that self-help groups help consumers by:
- Lessening feelings of isolation
- Increasing practical knowledge
- Sustaining coping efforts
- Replacing self-defeating thoughts and actions with wellness promoting activities
- Contributing greatly to empowerment
- Offering realistic hope for the future
- Improving self-esteem
Objectives
The purpose of this consumer run peer support group is to provide a forum for ongoing support, discussion, skill application, problem solving and community linkages. Access to clinical services if necessary is a built in component of the group. The group will be co-facilitated by a consumer of Personal Development Program and overseen by clinical staff.
