ME Living Inc. & COCAS | Individualized Support
Connect with trained peers and recovery-oriented resources for encouragement, self-advocacy and confidence.
Begin secure client intakePeer support complements clinical care by emphasizing lived experience and recovery goals. Services depend on availability and program requirements; peer support is not a substitute for licensed treatment.
Peer support brings together a person seeking support and an appropriately trained peer specialist who draws on lived experience and recovery-oriented practices. The relationship emphasizes respect, listening, shared problem solving, and your own choices and goals. It is distinct from diagnosis, psychotherapy, and medical treatment.
A peer specialist may help you identify strengths, build confidence, practice self-advocacy, connect with community resources, and develop everyday coping and wellness routines. Conversations may focus on keeping appointments, navigating support services, rebuilding positive relationships, or making manageable steps toward stability.
Peer services can complement case management, behavioral health counseling, housing navigation, and life skills when appropriate. A peer specialist does not prescribe medicine or replace a licensed clinician. If you have a medical or mental health concern requiring treatment, your care team can discuss an appropriate qualified provider or referral.
Start with ME Living registration, describe the support you are looking for, and indicate your interest in peer support on your Whole-Person Needs Assessment. The team can then review availability, program eligibility, and appropriate next steps without requiring you to disclose sensitive clinical details on this public page.
No. Peer support emphasizes lived experience, encouragement, mutual understanding, and recovery-oriented goals. Therapy is provided by appropriately credentialed mental health professionals.
That may be possible when both services are clinically or programmatically appropriate and available. Your care team can review service requirements and coordinate your support.
Common goals include self-advocacy, recovery routines, community connection, coping skills, motivation, and strategies for following through on personal goals.
Peer support is not an emergency service. In the United States, call or text 988 for immediate mental health crisis support, or 911 for a life-threatening emergency.
Questions about your specific circumstances? Start a secure intake or call (888) 635-1022.
Begin your secure intake and share your basic contact details.
Identify urgent concerns, goals and any forms your team requests.
Explore program eligibility, referrals and next steps with your care team.
