Whether you are seeking a one-time workshop, a series of trainings or ongoing assistance with organizational or community change, Give an Hour is here to help.
We offer trainings to educate, upskill, and empower individuals on their healing journeys. The purpose is to build resilience by providing support and guiding them in supporting others.
Our current training model centers on customization – we flex for the customer’s needs by listening, learning, creating, evaluating, and adjusting.
Peer support is the process of giving and receiving encouragement and assistance to achieve long-term resilience and recovery. Peer supporters offer emotional support, share knowledge, teach skills, provide practical assistance, and connect people with resources, opportunities, and communities of support. GAH-trained peer supporters offer their unique lived experience to provide support focused on advocacy, education, mentoring, and motivation.
Peer support is not therapy or professional counseling. While peer supporters have been trained and are being supported by a team of mental health professionals, peer supporters are not licensed mental health clinicians. They are peers, who want to connect and support with those who have experienced similar experiences or traumas.
Give an Hour maps the mental health and emotional wellness touchpoints for vulnerable populations and creates customized care plans with recommended resources and supports that improve knowledge, attitude, behavior, and confidence to improve mental health and wellbeing as well as when and how to access help.
By empowering lived experience research and sharing the findings in accessible ways, communities, peer supporters, and loved ones can support people living with symptoms of trauma and low mental health to develop new knowledge that they can use for their self-empowerment, recovery, and wellbeing.
