Abstract
In Georgia, peer providers bring lived experience and a focus on recovery to the behavioral health workforce.
Highlights
Building, which mimics a capitol with its white brick, stately columns, and black dome and cupola.When Cathy Wrighton worked there in admissions a couple of decades ago, she pushed open a heavy window seeking fresh air and heard patients screaming from the floors above
In that same year Georgia became the first state to receive Medicaid reimbursement for services delivered by “peers,” or people who use their personal experience with mental illness to help others
“Peer support is one of the many things put into place to give people lives of meaning and purpose,” says Sherry Jenkins Tucker, executive director of the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network, which contracts with the state to provide training and testing for certified peer specialists
Summary
Change: On the campus of the old Central State Hospital, in Milledgeville, Georgia, peer mentor Cathy Wrighton (right) and program director Gena Garner have seen the state’s approach to mental health care change dramatically in recent years. In Georgia, peer providers bring lived experience and a focus on recovery to the behavioral health workforce
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