Dougherty County Peer Support Services

What are Peer Support Services?

Peer support services provide an opportunity for consumers to:

• Direct their own recovery and advocacy.
• Get and exercise skills needed to manage symptoms and use natural support systems in the community.
• Meet, for mutual support, in a safe, structured environment.
• Live enriched, self-developed and empowered lives.

The basic goals of peer support services are:

• Maintaining and enhancing skills.
• Building consumers' ability to advocate for themselves and others.
• Promoting socialization, recovery, self-sufficiency and development of natural supports and maintenance of those skills learned in other support services.

Who is eligible for Peer Support Services?

• Individuals with a severe and persistent mental illness.
• Individuals who are dually diagnosed.
• Individuals who are 18 years or older.

What do peer support services enhance?

• Coping skills.
• Socialization skills.
• Leisure skills.
• Money management skills.
• Job readiness skills.
• Communication skills.

Peer support services provides professional services such as:

• Adult day services up to five hours per day, five days per week.
• Individual, group, and family skill training.
• Psychiatric services.
• Pharmacy services.
• Nursing services.
• Medication administration.
• Consultation and education.
• Community support individual (CSI).
• Case coordination services.
• Information and referral services to other agencies.
• Evaluation/screening services for mental health problems, progress, and lack of progress.
• Planning for appropriate treatment, level of care and linking the consumer to the services.

Fees: According to income (sliding fee scale) We accept private insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid		Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Located at: 1120 West Broad Avenue - Suite C-1 Albany, Georgia 31702		Contact: 229-430-1960