What if health care meant community care?
Our Peer Support & Community-Based Mental Health program offers something different — a grassroots alternative to traditional mental health systems, designed by and for people with lived experience of trauma, madness, queerness, chronic illness, disability, and survival. Whether you’ve been let down by the system or never felt safe enough to reach out for help, you’re not alone — and you deserve support that meets you where you are.
book a session
Connect with a peer who has lived experience navigating systems, trauma, and disability.
Peer Group support
Gather with others in support groups rooted in disability justice and collective care.
Meet the team
We are queer, disabled, and neurodivergent people bringing lived experience to support you.
What is Peer Support?
Peer support is a person with lived experiences of marginalization and struggle showing up to be with you — whether that’s online or in-person.
Our team of peers are queer, disabled, neurodivergent, chronically ill, or survivors of systems that misunderstood or harmed us. We don’t show up as experts to fix or pathologize. We show up as people walking alongside you — offering presence, tools, and solidarity.
That might look like:
Talking or processing grief.
Getting help with forms, applications, or calls to services like OHP, housing, SNAP, or gender-affirming care
Having someone by your side at an overwhelming appointment, or riding Trimet for the first time.
Sharing stories and memories that don’t fit neatly into diagnoses — and be heard without judgment.
Learning simple ways to calm your body when everything feels too much.
Sitting in silence with someone who understands grief, pain, or dissociation.
Exploring your dreams, your values, your art, your next tiny step.
Talking through what’s hard about being neurodivergent, chronically ill, trans, or just alive in a world that often misunderstands you
Peers aren't clinicians; they're just like you. Peer support is deeply human.
It’s care that’s rooted in shared lived experience, mutual respect, and real-world survival.
Peer support is not a checklist. It’s a relationship. ABSOLUTELY free, or you can use OHP
Support peer support
Peer Support Project provides compassionate, trauma-aware support for individuals navigating mental health challenges. Our trained peer specialists use their lived experience to walk alongside others, offering connection, advocacy, and practical guidance. With accessibility and equity at the center, we reduce barriers to care and foster community resilience. Your donation helps expand peer support, ensuring more people receive the understanding and resources they need. Support the Peer Support Project today!