Our Mission:
"To advocate, serve, and provide hope to vulnerable veterans by obtaining short and long term stabilization."
Our Vision:
In 2020, The Institute for Peer Support was created to disrupt the market with major innovation, by tapping into a relatively new market with a different idea and service while maintaining a competitive edge. The Institute for Peer Support is breaking new ground serving the veteran community with Honesty, Open-Mindedness, Mutuality, Authenticity, and Respect. This is why we are often times called a "Unicorn Circle.” We forge new paths with speed and confidence, hope, resiliency, and totally independent of others by bridging the “service gap” for veterans and their families through already formed partnerships and network contacts.
What do we do?
Mental Health Peer Support (MHPS) and Peer Support Supervision (PSS), provide services to the vulnerable veteran populations. We provide individual, group, or community based services to all era veterans regardless of discharge status, social, political, religious, economical status, disability, or age. Services will be provided virtually or in person within the community, churches, or established veteran agencies with a goal of 24 hours or less to meet the needs of initial intake and stabilization. As a certified Mental Health Peer Support, the goal is to identify basic needs and stabilization (1st phase), support accessing services, encouraging wellness activities and work hardening with daily routines, assist and track progress on goals with technology and being a positive reminder mental health recovery is possible through modeling a "lived experience." MHPS focuses on mutuality, integrity, and advocacy. Homeless outreach, food assistance, information and referral resources, and other needs are provided by bridging the gap with already established agencies. We provide learning groups to work on Wellness Action Recovery Plans (WRAP), escort services, and/or sometimes transportation to and from medical or social service appointments.
The start up donations will be used as "seed" money for current operations, website and social media creation. Anything and everything will be welcomed and greatly appreciated.
Official Tax-Exempt Organization - Institute for Peer Support
Institute for Peer Support operates as a program under the fiscal sponsorship of Women's Nonprofit Alliance, an official 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit parent organization, and our leadership adheres to their Statement of Faith. As an Alliance Partner of WomensNPA, we are able to accept tax-deductible donations. All online donations may appear on your bank statement as "Women's Nonprofit Alliance,” however funds are directly credited to Institute for Peer Support.
Through our partnership with the WomensNPA, we have been accredited by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) which provides accreditation to leading Christian nonprofit organizations that faithfully demonstrate compliance with established standards for financial accountability, transparency, fundraising and board governance, as well as GuideStar Gold Seal of Transparency for our financial oversight.
