Episode 20 - Brain Stories Connections: Peer Healing in Just 7 Days
When you get an infection, you're liable to take a 7 day course of antibiotics. Get a mental health issue and you might take an hour of therapy. But what if instead, you got 7 full days of empathy -- with people who have been there. That's the promise of peer respite. Lindsay Mesa tells us how it works at Rosewood Cottage, a peer respite program in Vermont. In their first year, the results have been astonishing. And at much lower cost than a psychiatric hospital.
To learn more about Pathways Vermont in general, click here. Our last episode highlighted another of their peer-based programs…
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