Peer Workforce Resource Hub

Across industries and systems, organizations are trying to build peer programs, support people in recovery, reduce burnout, strengthen workplaces, and navigate complex systems, often without practical tools or guidance that actually fit the work. This hub was built to organize those tools in one place.

Start Here

Ground your work in shared language, values, and expectations across the peer workforce.

Terms & Acronyms

Core terminology used across peer support, behavioral health, and workforce development.

Understanding Recovery

What recovery means within the context of peer support, recovery principles, pathways and peer values.

Language Matters

Guidance on recovery-centered, person-first, and role-aligned language in peer practice.

What Is Peer Support

Explore the role, values, and responsibilities that shape peer support practice and the unique contribution of lived experience.

Explore Peer Tools

Tools to support day-to-day peer specialist work, ethical practice and recovery-centered engagement across settings.

Foundational Workforce Tools

Role clarity, supervision tools, ethical decision-making, and core peer practice foundations.

Recovery Support Tools

Engagement strategies, recovery planning, trauma-informed approaches, and crisis response tools.

Staying Grounded in the Work

Resources to support sustainability, boundaries, and long-term workforce wellness.

For Employers & Organizations

Guidance for organizations hiring, supervising, and integrating peer specialists into workforce and service delivery models.

Employer Decision & Implementation Framework

Structured guidance to support organizations in designing, hiring, and sustaining peer roles with clarity, alignment, and long-term success.

Recovery Ready Workplaces

 

Tools and guidance to support workplace culture, language, and systems that allow peer roles to function effectively.

Building a Strong Peer Career

Resources and tools to help peer specialists enter the workforce, strengthen their practice, grow professionally and build sustainable careers over time.

Training Catalog

Learning doesn't stop after certification.

Browse RecoveryPeople's growing catalog of on-demand trainings designed to help peer professionals strengthen their practice, earn continuing education, and advance their careers.

Whether you're new to the workforce or an experienced leader, you'll find practical training on recovery support, ethics, trauma-informed care, supervision, leadership, advocacy, and more.