Becoming a peer team member means considering the needs and well-being of your peers.  It's a role that is not taken lightly.  It's one that requires a great deal of time and effort.  Training is included, and we work together as a team.

If you think you could be up to the task, please answer the following:

• Are you ready to listen to someone else’s story without needing to tell your own? 

• Are you able to control your own emotions even if someone else loses composure? 

• Are you able to offer encouragement without giving advice?  

• Are you comfortable with another person’s silence, tears, and anger?  

• Are you comfortable talking honestly about your feelings and experiences with grief?  

• Are you able to respect other people’s decisions, judgments, and beliefs, even when they are different from your own?  

• Are you able to keep the details of your contacts with others private and confidential?  

• Are you able to respect and honor the boundaries of the peer support role?  

• Are you able to keep your own personal, religious, and political views to yourself while making peer support contacts?  

• Are you willing to step back from the peer support role should you need to refocus your energies on yourself and your own life?

• Do you have the time and energy to devote to this endeavor?

If you answered "yes" to all of these questions, connect with a peer to get started!  

Requirements

Training is required to become a peer.  We will provide training and will mentor you along the way.  At a minimum, all peers must complete the following:

• Peer-to-peer training

• Group session training

• Suicide intervention

• Suicide postvention

• Stress First Aid

• Resiliency Training

• Grief Following Trauma