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Completing the Peer Support Specialist training empowers you to transform personal lived experience into professional purpose—joining a certified, highly respected workforce in Wake County and across the state of North Carolina. You’ll help reduce hospitalization, enhance recovery, and build stronger, more resilient communities.
Local Impact and Statistics of Peer Support Specialists:
As of May 2025, North Carolina had 5,978 certified peer support specialists, with the vast majority (5.907) living and working within the state.
(Per PSS-UNC)
Peer support specialists—individuals with lived experience in recovery—bring uniquely powerful benefits that traditional clinical providers cannot match.
"Peer support is about being an expert in not being an expert- meeting people where they are, not where we think they should be. - Larry Davisdon, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University.
"We are not here to fix people. We are here to walk beside them as they discover how to fix themselves." - Anonymous CPSS
"When people connect through lived experience, stigma fades, and healing begins.
- Mental Health America
"The role of a peer support specialist is not to rescue or save, but to hold hope until someone can hold it for themselves." - National Association of Peer Supporters (N.A.P.S.)
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