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PEER CONNECTION
A Unique and Uniquely Effective Program for People Wrestling With
Co-Occurring Disorders
somewhere in smallsbury…
Richard Bearman
Jennifer Mahoney
Review of the Literature
Incidence and prevalence rates
Estimates of treatment outcomes
Data Collection
Subjects
Settings
Method
Data base
48.6 % of all who began the
Peer Connection program are
clean, sober, and stable at least a
year later.
October, 2011 data; N = 47
The Bottom Line
Peer Connection
108 West Lehigh Avenue Salisbury, Maryland 21801 Phone # (410) 546-1822 Program Director - Jennifer Mahoney
Peer Connection is a division of Go-Getters, Inc.
Go-Getters, Inc. is a voluntary community of friendship providing sanctuary and support to
adults recovering from severe mental illness on the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland
Mission #1(Self)
To improve our members quality of life by teaching them to manage their mental health & addiction
Mission # 2 (Group)
To utilize a peer guided model so peers will develop self worth, responsibility and accountability for self and others
The Main Concepts
Helping others
Values versus rules
High expectations
Stress as a motivator
Problems are normal
Creating opportunities for the group to succeed
Peer Connection Lingo 101
The Problem List –handout Identify Specific Specific Specific Patterns, not Situations “Here and Now” Keeps Confrontation of Problems
from Becoming Personal or Offensive
The “When Solved” List --handout
Staff Functions
Facilitators
Roles: soothers, demanders, stimulators
Reversals
Groups
Formal
Informals
Video of group process
Mission #3 (Community)
Independence and autonomy
The Peers
Testimonials