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peer Specialist Toolkit Implementing peer Support Services in VHA This document is a collaborative project between the VISN 1 New England MIRECC peer Education Center, and the VISN 4 MIRECC peer Resource Center. Contributing authors: Matt hew Chinman, Kevin Henze, and Pat ricia Sweeney. Edited by Sha ron McCarthy page 3Acknowledgements We thank Dan O Brien-Mazza, National Director, peer Support Services,Psychosocial Rehabilitation and recovery Services, Mental Health Services. Dan has fully supported this project, and given expert help with many details in this document. We thank members of the VISN 4 peer Resource Center Advisory Committee: Sara Chapman, Lisa Fitzsimmons, Diana Hoke, and Steve Stanley, who reviewed several versions of this document and made thoughtful contributions.

Peer Specialists promote recovery by sharing their own recovery stories, providing encouragement, instilling a sense of hope, and teaching skills to Veterans. These services are provided by an appropriately qualified, VA-employed Peer Specialist. In VHA, PSs have defined competencies and

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