Essentials of Peer-run Respite: Creating New Pathways for Coloradans in Crisis

Join us for an introduction to the essential values, principles, and components of peer-run respite as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization or police intervention for persons experiencing mental or emotional crisis. This webinar is for peers and persons with lived experience, clinicians, administrators, policy makers, and advocates in Colorado to explore models and essential components of peer-run respite, understand what non-clinical peer-run respite could provide for Coloradans, and discuss your own questions about peer respite with national experts, Sera Davidow and Vic Welle. 

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is a filmmaker, activist, advocate, author, and mother of two. As a survivor of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and domestic violence, she has faced many challenges throughout her own healing process, including many ups and downs with suicidal thoughts, and self-injury. At present, she spends much of her time working as Director of the , which includes Afiya Peer Respite, (WHO) as one …