We are thrilled to announce that Tim Saubers will be joining us as the Executive Director of the National Association of Peer Supporters starting in April! Tim has been an integral part of N.A.P.S. for over five years, volunteering on committees and serving on the board for the past three years, including as the Board…
Members of the National Association of Peer Supporters met during the organization’s 2023 annual conference. N.A.P.S. leaders provided an overview of the organization’s work over the past year and goals for the upcoming year.
The National Association of Peer Support Professionals (N.A.P.S.) recently launched a new job board for peer support professionals seeking employment and employers seeking to hire peer support professionals across the United States. The new N.A.P.S. job board can be accessed at peersupportworks.org/jobs. While N.A.P.S. has hosted an online job board for many years, the new…
What it Takes: Wisdom from Peer Support Specialists and Supervisors is about the practice of peer support from its origins in self-help to its continuing evolution as a profession. It provides some history, research, values, and guidelines of peer support brought together from conference presentations from real-world practitioners. Written by NAPS members for NAPS members…
N.A.P.S. Highlights Resource for Supervisors of Peer Support Specialists
Leading mental health organizations strongly support new bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate by Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to provide Medicare coverage of peer support services for individuals with mental health or substance use disorders who are being treated in primary care and receiving integrated behavioral health services.
2020 has been full of challenges and for many of us, crisis. The coronavirus impacted each of us on a personal, family, and community level. This ongoing pandemic will continue to alter our lives. In May, our country’s history and present reality of racism came front and center with the killing of George Floyd. For…
NAPS has reorganizied and rebranded as the National Association of Peer Supporters (N.A.P.S.).