Peer support for youth and young adults who experience serious mental health conditions
(SMHCs) is rapidly growing in popularity as an addition to the mental health service array in …

Increasing the availability of peer support for youth and young adults with serious mental
health conditions has been advocated by service users, researchers, and government …

Peer support, defined as the social and emotional support offered and received by
individuals with a shared experience of mental health difficulties, is gaining popularity in …

Background Youth peer support, as a practice that aligns youth engagement and
participatory approaches, has become increasingly popular in the context of youth mental …

Despite the emerging body of literature on the benefits of youth peer support, there is also
evidence that peer support can have unintended negative impacts on peers themselves. It is …

Methods For this HTA, we engaged youth advisors (peer support users and workers) who
shared their perspectives with the research team at various stages of the project. We also …

Peer-to-peer support has been an essential component for successful recovery in the adult
mental health and substance abuse systems. The same support is urgently needed for youth …

This scoping review synthesizes published and unpublished information on Youth Peer
Support Services (YPSS), where young adults with current or prior mental health challenges …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify and understand the barriers and enablers
to the implementation of youth peer support in a clinical mental health service. The …

Peer support has become increasingly available as a formal mental health service.
However, high quality research and implementation of peer support has been hampered …