Peer Services
Developing relationships that contribute to each person learning and growing.
Comcare Peer Services is based on the philosophies of Intentional Peer Support.
“Peer Support is not like clinical support, nor is it just like being friends. Unlike clinical help, peer support helps people to understand each other because they’ve ‘been there’, shared similar experiences and can model for each other a willingness to learn and grow. In peer support people come together with the intention of changing unhelpful patterns, getting out of ‘stuck’ places, and building relationships that are respectful, mutually responsible, and potentially mutually transforming. In other words people use peer support because it feels safe and accepting.”
(MacNeil & Mead 2003)
Comcare Peer Support Services:
- Warmline
non-crisis, confidential telephone support from 1pm to 4pm and 7pm to midnight, 7 days a week by phoning 379 8412 or 0800 89 WARM (0800 89 9276). - Intentional Peer Support Training
- Peer Supervision
- Agents for Intentional Peer Support resources
- Pre-vocational Peer Support
“It is healing to learn that one needs and is needed, cares and is cared for, and can receive as well as give.”
This healing can only happen within relationships.
Peer Support Service
Individual Peer Support that allows people to explore through shared experience, the issues, barriers and solutins, and make positive plans to move forward. It assists us make sense of our experiences, base on key principles of respect, shared responsibility and mutual agreement of what is helpful.
Available either face to face or telephone.