Peer Support Workers and SOAR Issue Brief
Increasingly, people with lived experience are being called upon to provide services for people with behavioral health conditions. People with common life experiences have a unique capacity to help each other as they share a deep understanding of their shared experiences, which may not exist in other relationships. Peer-operated services are now recognized nationally and internationally and numerous studies demonstrate that peer-operated services show positive recovery-based outcomes for people with behavioral health disorders. There are a number of places across the country where peers are playing an active role in SOAR activities.