Jessie Roth
Peer mentors during a recent organizing meeting.
Out of the psychiatry-reform movements of the late 20th Century came a remarkable innovation: ‘Peer workers’ who have experienced mental-heath crises working alongside other clinicians. But are today’s peers right in saying they are sidelined by NY’s system?
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