A PeerCommunity is a group of people who have had the same or similar adverse life experience or a peer group... people who are in the best possible position to hear and understand each other.

Examples of communities that can benefit from the Peer-Community Program:

  • Those whose lives have been disrupted by COVID-19

  • Communities upended by natural disasters

  • Those impacted by racism

  • People who have experienced sexual abuse

  • People who have experienced gender discrimination

  • Refugees

  • Survivors of domestic violence

  • Communities struggling with drugs and gang violence

  • Suicidal veterans

  • Civilians impacted by war

  • Victims of human trafficking

  • People who have experienced workplace abuse

  • High school students

  • People hurt by disruptive politics

  • Survivors of childhood abuse

  • First responders

  • Helping professionals who have experienced vicarious trauma

  • People who have experienced the criminal justice system

  • People who have escaped from cults

  • Victims of crime

  • Perpetrators of crime

Etc. etc. etc.  ...the list is long, the possibilities are endless.

We speak to each other in emotional shorthand.
— A program participant