Blue Skies RI offers peer support for grief for lose due to substance use both in person and online on Tuesday as posted on our calendar. Blue Skies RI in person meetings are held at the East Bay Recovery Center located in Warren, Rhode Island.
Peer Support Groups are not a substitute for clinical care. They can be part of a clinical care plan and they can be helpful in preclinical and undiagnosed situations for anxiety, grief, loneliness, depression, and substance use. Peer Groups are zero-cost, and no waiting gatherings, usually is groups from two to five or six people. The goal of peer support is to provide a place where people understand what you are going through because they have gone through similar experiences. Peers share experiences and may help identify resources but they do not give advice. Each individual is unique and what has worked for any one individual may not be helpful to others.
Online Peer Support Group meetings can be very convenient way to meet some of the group members. Hosts manage introductions and a flow of conversation. Peer groups always gather for each other. Two very large networks for finding peer support with national and regional reach include Share Well Now and The Sun Will Rise.
We can all become Peer Supporters, with some minimal TRAINING.
Other peer support RESOURCES available in Rhode Island