In mental healthcare, peer support refers to the supportive care that a person with a history of mental health challenges provides to another person-in-recovery. While peer support may happen informally, IMH has peer support specialists in both inpatient and outpatient settings, who are trained professionals embedded in various clinical teams. By leveraging lived experience, peer support specialists offer peer support to interested or suitable peers at various stages of their recovery, including those who are acutely unwell and those returning to their communities of choice. Peer support specialists provide a range of peer support services, including person-driven individual sessions and peer support groups or workshops, and practise in accordance to peer support ethics and recovery principles.