Acknowledging our pain and suffering as well as our moments of joy.; while supporting each other during times of crisis and when we are approaching crisis.

Objectives -

• When we as peers, either as team staff members or clients, feel pain, suffer, or struggle with our mental health and or the life challenges we face we make a conscious effort to recognise it, acknowledge it, reach out for support, utilise our coping skills and strengths, and create a plan to get through it and recover.

• When we experience good things in our mental health and our life, we make a conscious effort to recognise it, acknowledge it, share it with others and feel good about it.

Eliminating barriers of accessing equitable mental health services so that all people can get the support that they need and deserve.

Objectives -

• As an organization this is something we actively do at our core and as we exist.

• With our community education program and services, we collaborate and work within our communities to educate, learn, and share about mental health topics, challenges, awareness, safety, harm reduction, and engagement with those experiencing mental health challenges in a peer recovery model.

• We collect, verify, and share available resources within our scope.

• We bridge services to create effective support systems holistically for our clients.

• We make it known that we are not alone, that while mental health challenges can be terrifying and painful, that we are fierce champions for humanity that can rise above our challenges and find successful recovery.

Working together to help destigmatize mental health; and to promote and create safety and awareness among each other and the communities we live in and identify with.

Objectives -

• Again, as an organization this is something we actively do at our core and as we exist.

• With our programs and services, we collaborate with each other, our communities and educate, and help people understand that WE (peers and people living with and experiencing mental health challenges) are not bad people, we are not evil, we are not, if equitably treated fairly, to be feared or shunned or that we are any less than the rest of society.

• We raise awareness within ourselves and our communities that we are people and that we often struggle. And when we struggle we need and demand equitable support that actually helps us as individuals, because we are not numbers or statistics. WE ARE PEOPLE. What works for some people does not work for every person and we need systems and programs that reflect and practice this.

• We reach out to our local, state, and federal governments to make it known that we need more support, more awareness, more funding, and ultimately more compassion and kindness.

Concisely our mission statement is:

Through our values we create hope in ourselves and each other through compassion, collaboration, tears, and laughter by connecting with each other and our community; acknowledging our pain and suffering and our moments of joy while supporting each other; working to eliminate barriers of access and mental health stigma; and creating and promoting meaningful awareness and safety.