Peer Support: A Theoretical Perspective

1 peer support : A Theoretical Perspective Shery Mead, Mead Consulting 302 Bean Road Plainfield, NH 03781 David Hilton, Director, Office of Consumer Affairs New Hampshire Department of Mental Health & Developmental Services 105 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301 Laurie Curtis, Consultation, Evaluation & Training for Mental Health Services 83 Davy Road Middlesex, VT 05602 2 Authors Biographies Shery Mead, MSW and doctoral student at Fielding Institute, is the founder and past director of three New Hampshire peer support Programs including a peer run hospital alternative. She consults on the issues of recovery, trauma and mental health, systems change and the development and implementation of peer operated services. David W. Hilton, MA is the Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs for the New Hampshire Department of Mental Health where he conceived, organized and implemented a statewide system of alternative services developed and operated by consumers.

members of the peer community to try out new behaviors with one another and move beyond previously held self-concepts built on disability and diagnosis. The Stone Center refers to this as “mutual empowerment” (Stiver & Miller, 1998). Peer support can offer a culture of health and ability as opposed to a culture of “illness”and disability.

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