Honoring the Work & Life of Susan Preffer
It's with a sad heart that we share news of the passing of our friend Susan Preffer. For over 10...
The Roots of Lived Experience and Peer Support
The phrase "lived experience" has been widely adopted in the peer support movement. We talk about...
Peer Specialists Are Not Clinicians
Peer Specialists are an emerging workforce in behavioral health. Many Peer Specialists work...
Celebrating the Life of Eddie Taylor
We just received the sad news that Eddie Taylor, a peer specialist in Kansas City, KS, has...
Historical Roots of Peer Practitioners
Today, many people with the lived experience of recovery, are working in paid positions in...
Peer Staff as Disruptive Innovators
There is a tension at the heart of our work as peer staff. It is the tension between Love and...
Howie the Harp
I just finished filming recovery videos in New York City last week. We shot about 36 videos of...
The Legacy of Peer Support
In contemporary times, we are seeing a rise in the numbers and types of peer-run programs across...
Mentalism, Micro-Aggression and the Peer Practitioner
I was visiting with a group of peer practitioners who were working as advocates and mentors with...
CommonGround Guides
CommonGround Guides put recovery tools directly into the hands of the people who need them. Each Guide contains education, workbook style exercises, Personal Medicine Cards, tracking tools and reflection questions.
Work & the Dignity of Risk
Sometimes staff are reluctant to refer folks to Supported Employment and Education Specialists. In this E-Learning course, Pat Deegan will teach you a recovery-oriented framework for managing risk and supporting choice.
Recovery Library
The Hope. The Tools. The inspiration to recover after a diagnosis of mental illness. Recovery Library offers thousands of resources to support recovery and is available for individuals and programs.
Author
Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. The mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
