Technology has evolved to allow incarcerated individuals to maintain connections with loved ones and to engage in education, ...

Thirty-three years ago, Debra Jackson-Salaam decided she hated her life more than she loved the drugs that were destroying it ...

The program is called SOAR ... She says the benefits of peer support work go both ways, and that working with people who understand what psychosis feels like, and how it can affect one’s ...

Those are provided through several support teams that might include peer mediator ambassadors ... a grant-based program that extends to about a third of the city’s more than 1,500 schools.

Run by the Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services, the College Support Program matches neurodiverse students with trained undergrad and grad students Adjusting to college life can be a difficult ...

The program is the latest initiative by the OBA to lend specialized support to its members. In 2023, the bar association announced its Peer Support Network for Lawyers Living with Disabilities, which ...

The out-of-school activities include peer leadership ... This year’s grants will support the continuation of the program that engaged with more than 200 youth, 11 to 18 years old, last fiscal ...