Biography - Chris Christopher Laureano is a Certified Peer Specialist and Director of the Recovery Education and Learning (REAL) Program at Bay Cove Human Services. Christopher is an autistic person who has also experienced anxiety and trauma through various life situations due to having trouble with reading social cues and learning differently from others. He…
Biography - Vesper Moore Vesper Moore serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Kiva Centers. As an Indigenous activist and leader, Vesper is deeply committed to promoting mental health and disability rights through activism, leadership, organizing, public speaking, and education. Their work focuses on cultivating social movements and raising public awareness to foster lasting social…
The Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital’s Center of Excellence for Psychosocial and Systemic Research (COE) aims to enhance the lives of those with mental health challenges through community-based projects. The COE focuses on research, psychoeducation, and addressing healthcare disparities while implementing psychosocial interventions to improve individual and community well-being. In 2018, the Peer Specialist Team at…
The next National Alliance on Mental Illness Greater Boston Peer Support and Advocacy Network (PSAN) monthly speaker series will feature several members of opening doors to the arts telling their recovery story and how opening doors works. We get free and reduced price tix to concerts, theatre and more! see www.openingdoorstothearts.org Speakers: Hilary, Michael, Howard…
Bio Lawrence Harris is a 19-year-old Youth Empowerment Speaker who helps teens and young adults break through limiting beliefs and build lives rooted in confidence, resilience, and mental wellness. As someone who is autistic and a survivor of childhood abuse and C-PTSD, Lawrence brings a raw, relatable, and powerful presence to every stage he steps…
Bio Ashley Sproul is the Director of Recovery and Empowerment with the Department of Mental Health and a Certified Peer Specialist (CPS). She began her career as a CPS within The Living Room model, where she was able to provide peer support to individuals experiencing significant emotional distress in a trauma-sensitive setting. Throughout her…
Bio Elizabeth Moore is currently employed as one of four Certified Peer Specialists at Waverley Place, the community support program associated with McLean Hospital. She has been employed there for 8 years and loves helping members strive to meet their individual recovery goals. Some of her other responsibilities at Waverley Place include leading groups,…
There will be no event on October 2nd because of Yom Kippur.
Bio Heidi HyunJin Lee (she/they), BFA, MEd, CPS/certified peer specialist is an artist, visual arts educator, mental health activist, somatic healing fanatic, and mother to a beautifully spirited child who keeps her heart young and mind curious. She is currently working on her MSW degree, inspired by her former clients at Boston Health Care…
Bio: Lenny Mulcahy is a CPS/Certified Peer Specialist who has been working at Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation for the last 25 years. The Center's mode of Recovery and Rehabilitation is based on education and celebrating people's personhood and individual choices. Lenny teaches adult education topics on wellness, including physical, spiritual and emotional…