Peer Support

Programme Areas

Mental health

Programme Type

Peer / advocacy / group / family whānau support

Regions

Canterbury

Age Groups

Adult / Pakeke

Referral Types

Self referral

Referral Process

If you would like to know more about peer support at Step Ahead, including who the peer supporters are, talk to any staff member.

Description

Members at Step Ahead regularly provide support to one another.  Also several members of the staff have had lived experience. 

Members provide support to each other in a number of different ways. They might just listen, be a buddy to new members, offer encouragement, steer you in the right direction to someone who may be able to help or share their own experience of what has been helpful to them.

If members require additional support over and above the peer support services that we offer, information and access to an appropriate service will be provided.