Riverside County Peer Support
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RCPS Needs Volunteer Peer Support Providers to help support those in our community.
We provide free and confidential peer mental health support through our programs and services to residents of Riverside County, California.
If you are in emotional crisis or having thoughts of suicide, please reach out for support at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by calling or texting "988". You can also learn about what to do if you or someone you know is having thoughts about suicide by reading this article written by peers Here.
What is Peer Support? A Peer is someone who has lived experience (similar experiences) struggling with mental health & life challenges. Peer Support is working with a Peer who can help you find success in your own mental health wellness and recovery. Learn More
Your Mental Health Matters. Your experiences, your emotions, and your voice is unique, and you deserve to be heard and validated!
Welcome to RCPS!
Welcome to RCPS!
Our Mission
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.
Learn more about our mission and our objectives for fulfilling our mission Here.
All of our services are free to Riverside County Residents. We also gladly accept donations supporting our work, mission, values, and goals!
We are a new community mental health and peer support organization serving all of Riverside County. While we are still in development, the most important goals for us right now are creating awareness in our community of who we are and what we do. and we encourage you to share who we are with others. We are seeking champions for humanity to join our team to fulfill our mission and our values and provide services to our clients. Your support is greatly appreciated and honored! Learn more or join us by clicking the button below:
Our programs and services are currently being offered remotely via phone, zoom, and text with limited in-person appointments available.
Our peer mentorship program is designed to match trained Peer Support Providers with our clients to build a relationship of trust, where you can get caring one on one support from your peer mentor by working with you on self-care strategies, coping skills and tools, wrap plans, checking in with each other, developing safety plans, getting helpful reminders, and working together towards your wellness and recovery.
One area of our mission is to promote and create awareness and safety within ourselves and our communities that we live in. Two critical objectives for accomplishing this is to work toward destigmatising mental health within ourselves and within our communities, the other is eliminating barriers for equitable access to mental health support.
We currently have limited peer counseling services available by appointment only. Our peer counseling services are currently being offered via telehealth by phone or video call. If you would like to receive peer counseling services, please fill out our client intake form and a staff member will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
Clients can get mental health support in our focused support groups for several mental health challenges, where you can connect with fellow peers, learn from each other, and discuss helpful coping skills and strategies. Support groups are also helpful in meeting new people when looking to meet new friends and to network.
Our website content, training curriculum, and organization is currently being edited and completed. We appreciate your patience and support as we work hard to maintain success!
RCPS believes music is a powerful platform to freely expresses our voice, our emotions and our ideas, and likewise it is a valuable tool to help us cope with our mental health and our lives.
The Official RCPS Theme Song:
It's Valid and Okay To Not Be Okay
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