Are you 55+? Have you dealt with emotional or mental health challenges?
Become a volunteer with our Older Adult Peer Support Program!
As a peer support volunteer, you'll work with other older adults struggling with emotional or mental health challenges related to aging. The goal is to provide them with support and hope in their recovery.
Volunteers will engage in intentional Peer Support with program participants. They will assist the program staff in modelling hope and recovery, using active listening to identify, explore and validate feelings and life circumstances, and assisting peers to self-advocate and connect to community resources.
NISA will offer training and an 8-week mentorship for volunteers in the Older Adult Peer Support Program.
If you would like to put your lived experience to work and try volunteering, you can contact the Program Coordinator Shirley Rajotte at:
705-222-6472 ext. 514 or srajotte@nisa.on.ca
What is Peer Support?
Peer support is based on the idea that people with first-hand experience of mental health challenges are uniquely equipped to help others find insight, resources, and hope. Peer supporters have "been there."
Peer support is:
- Comfortable
- Confidential
- Personal
- Self-guided
We're looking for people who have firsthand experience with:
- Anxiety
- Caregiver burnout
- Dementia or memory problems
- Depression
- Disability
- Feelings of loneliness
- Grief and loss
- Housing changes
- Physical illness
- Social isolation
- Stress
