HRDI provides peer support services for individuals struggling with substance abuse or mental health disorders.

Daughter of Destiny Outreach, Inc. helps support wounded women so they can be restored back to wholeness. Services include: 1:1 sessions, group processing, recovery coaching, mentorship, case management, spiritual support, basic life skills, parenting classes, home economics, and workshops.

Thresholds' New Freedom Centers employs staff who are in recovery from mental illness. They provide community support services focused on illness self-management, skill-building identification, and the use of natural supports and community resources. These Certified Recovery Support Specialists (CRSS) operate our two New Freedom Centers, which offer a range of daily, drop-in activities that include art groups, basic living skills, holiday parties, and volunteer opportunities. The centers provide a vital social network as well as a host of programming, including topics related to peer services, empowerment, self-advocacy, system transformation, and consumer choice.Peer Success operates two of the four New Freedom Centers at Thresholds. The centers are open seven days a week for consumers of all levels of mental health services. People who come to the New Freedom Centers learn about mental health recovery by meeting people who are themselves in recovery. Many people who are moving out of Institutes of Mental Disease or nursing homes back into their community have identified building social relationships as one of their primary struggles. The program also operates an Empowerment Center six days a week, where structured self-care and recovery groups are offered.The centers provide a vital social network as well as a host of programming, including topics related to peer services, empowerment, self-advocacy, system transformation, and consumer choice.

Erika's Lighthouse provides free teen-oriented online educational materials that allow teachers and students to start healthy, open discussions about depression students from elementary school through high school.

Helpline: Provides and assists with resources and services for families in need or in crisis through their Helpline. 1:1 Peer Support Chat: Work with a Peer Support Chat Specialist (1 time only for 30 minutes or a Peer Support Facilitator for 4 to 8 Weeks.Education and Peer Support Groups: (Step Up Peer Training Circle) Peer support education workshops, classes, some free webinars, free Google Scholarships, Mental Health First Aid course (Free if grant), adult learning via on-demand video, or live events.Please sign up and register via their website. (Free or small fee for some programming).

University of Illinois at Chicago - Adult Education and Career Transition - FAST West provides a peer-to-peer transitional support program where individuals can share their experiences and learn from each other in a closed and confidential support network.

Free, peer-support service for information and support to those with mental health challenges, their caregivers and family members, mental health providers and the public. Also includes Living Room drop-in center for adults needing immediate support (but not emergency crisis help).

Reach to Recovery - Online one-to-one breast cancer peer support service