Peer Support

Get Help from Friends

You don’t have to walk this path alone. Explore free, peer-led programs designed to offer mutual support, guidance, and community understanding.

Community Advocate Program

Peer Outreach Support Team

Peer to Peer Connections is a telephone support program currently being offered to adults living in Passaic County who are in recovery from a mental health condition. Individuals with a mental health condition, who are also coping with substance abuse, are eligible for this free service.

Trained Peer Support workers, individuals also in recovery from a mental health condition, can offer regularly scheduled telephone support calls that are based on a mutually developed support plan.

Types of support offered can include:

Wellness and Recovery tools
Coping Skills
Maintaining Sobriety
Using the Internet for Virtual Groups and Activities
Boredom Busters
Creative Expression
Strategies to Stay Well
Relaxation and Stress Reduction Exercises
Friendly Conversation

Peer to Peer Support Connections is a non-crisis telephone support opportunity offered through our Peer Outreach Support Team and Community Outreach Program.

For more details, please contact Dennise Babin.

To date, we have assisted 82+ Passaic County individuals in completing their PAD.

Peer to Peer Psychiatric Advance Directive Project

The Van Ameringen Foundation is funding a two year pilot project to increase the number and use of psychiatric advance directives.

Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADS) are a type of medical advance directive, similar to a living will. It is a legal document that may be used to document a competent person’s instructions and preferences regarding future mental health treatment.

PADs may also be used to plan for the possibility that someone may lose capacity to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute episodes of psychiatric illness. This project is a collaboration of the Mental Health Association in New Jersey and MHAPC. The project will be focused on Passaic and Hudson County. Specially trained Peer Advocates will be working one on one with interested individuals with mental illness. We are very excited about this project and expanding the work that we have already done in this area.

If you or your organization would like to learn more or would like a presentation, please contact: Rebekah Leon.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
(DBSA Support Group)

Find support in Passaic County.

Do you suffer from depression or a mood disorder? Do you know of someone who does?
Are you looking for a place to find support and understanding?

If so, please join us via Zoom:
Mondays from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, or Tuesdays from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm.

Registration is required: Contact Dennise Babin

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First time reaching out? You can call, email, or come by — whichever feels easier today. We’ll meet you wherever you are.