Peer Support

Peer Support links individuals experiencing a disability with each other – to share their personal experience to provide ‘Me, Too’ support. They share life experiences, provide support, and share knowledge to empower independence. Relationships are mutually beneficial and promote responsibility and achievement.

Peer Supporters:

  • Listen
  • Assist someone with adjusting to their disability
  • Provide personal knowledge about living with a disability
  • Share experiences, information, resources, and strategies
  • Participate in discussions about changing the perceptions that are sometimes associated with people with disabilities.
  • ADA staff with a consumer and his dog at a park