The Alaska Peer Support Consortium is a network of Alaskan behavioral health peer support organizations. The Consortium fellows meet face to face three times yearly. We get to know each other's history, mission, flavor, and dreams, address funding issues, organize peer support education and training, and share information. The fellowship develops the assumption of commonness rather than the assumption of isolation and separation. By pooling energy and information, there is a wider base from which to grow. In finding our common denominators, our needs become less personal, more general, and therefore more possible for the behavioral health system to effectively respond. A spiral of energy emerges in which our collected voice becomes clearer. The more stable and unified peer directed organizations become, the stronger and richer the Alaska behavioral health system is for all.

FIND OUT ABOUT our annual Mental Health Recovery Education Conference: www.peerconference.org