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Matches adult individuals that have or have had cancer with a survivor of the same cancer, treatment, and side-effects. Also matches caregivers and family members with trained volunteer caregivers who themselves have undergone a similar experience. One-on-one emotional support and encouragement is generally provided over the phone, but may take place via email, text, or video chat.

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Families/Friends of People With Cancer
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Peer to Peer Networking
Cancer

Offers a peer mentorship program which pairs a new parent in need of mental health support with a trained volunteer who has experienced and fully recovered from a Perinatal Mental Health Disorder. Over a period of six months, peer mentors may provide education, guidance, and other assistance by phone, video call, text messaging, and/or email.

Offers a support group for amputees, their families and friends. Also matches a new amputee with an amputee of similar age, sex, and amputation to provide support and helpful hints to new amputees.

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Support Groups
Peer to Peer Networking
Amputations
Provides support and information for individuals concerned about breast cancer from someone who has been there - a breast cancer survivor. This program helps breast cancer patients and their loved ones address the emotional, physical and social issues related to breast cancer.
Provides assistance dealing with trauma in a variety of ways. Services may include counseling, advocacy, support groups (peer led), peer to peer support, and other services, depending on the trauma experienced. Helps with navigating compensation services for those eligible for assistance through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) .Provides trauma-focused counseling staffed by a social work professional for crime victims as well as social work care coordination.

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Crime Victim Support
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Crime Victim/Witness Counseling
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Peer to Peer Networking
Mental Health Related Support Groups
Provides peer support for Breast Cancer patients.
Provides educational programs on bleeding disorders and coordinates care with Hemophilia Treatment Center at Toledo Children's Hospital's Hemophilia Clinic (4th Tuesday of each month). Provides educational materials to providers and consumers. Family resource meetings provide education, networking and support. Youth Leadership holds bi-monthly meetings with youth ages 12 and older to discuss management of bleeding disorder, teach leadership skills, education and mentoring. Direct Client Service meets at Hemophilia Treatment Center to provide medical identifications, family support, educational materials and other services on an as-needed basis.

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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Peer to Peer Networking

Provides the Reach to Recovery support program, matching volunteers who are breast cancer survivors with newly diagnosed or pre-diagnosis patients who are comparable in age, cancer type and extent, treatment planned, etc., a volunteer will make the initial phone contact and an initial visit to the patient, and will provide literature, exercise information, and other support.

NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a free, eight-session educational program for adults with mental health conditions who are looking to better understand themselves and their recovery. Taught by trained leaders with lived experience, this program includes activities, discussions and informative videos. However, as with all NAMI programs, it does not include recommendations for treatment approaches. NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a safe, confidential space. The course provides an opportunity for mutual support and growth. Experience compassion and understanding from people who relate to your experiences. This is a place to learn more about recovery in an accepting environment. NAMI Peer-to-Peer helps you: - Set a vision and goals for the future - Partner with health care providers - Develop confidence for making decisions - Practice relaxation and stress reduction tools - Share your story - Strengthen relationships - Enhance communication skills - Learn about mental health treatment options.
Provides a wide range of programs for people who have a hearing loss, including system and individual advocacy, independent living training, peer mentoring, speech-to-text services and information and referral. Provides language development support as well that helps children going into school with hearing loss receive support and achieve fluency in American Sign Language

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Hearing Loss
Peer to Peer Networking
Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Health Related Advocacy Groups
Provides a Peer to Peer volunteer phone connection for blood cancer patients and their families.
Provides one-on-one peer support to individuals that are HIV positive.
PRS training teaches individuals in recovery from a mental health and/or substance use issue to use their experience to help their Peers who are also in recovery. To be eligible for PRS training, you must be personally be in recovery from a mental health and/or substance use issue (having a friend or family member in recovery will not qualify you for PRS training). Individuals who successfully complete training and pass the PRS Certification Exam are eligible to apply for certification as a Peer Recovery Supporter in Ohio.
Operates a peer network made up of foster care alumni. Network members meet regularly, offer peer-to-peer support, meet with policymakers, and participate in child welfare advocacy opportunities.
Offers confidential, one-on-one emotional support by matching trained, volunteer cancer survivors with adult cancer patients, their caregivers & loved ones. Our volunteers have faced more than 80 cancer types and speak 15 languages.
Provides one-on-one emotional support, mentoring, and companionship to those living with a mental health condition or their friends, family members, and caregivers.

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Peer to Peer Networking
Adult Mentoring Programs
Mental Illness/Emotional Disabilities
Provides a peer support program to match adults coping with severe mental illness with a community volunteer for friendship and social skill building. Provided through a partnership with Compeer International. Opportunties in the program may include: - One-to-One Friendship Program: Offers face-to-face contact with adult volunteer. - Compeer Calling: Provides telephone support (may be offered in addition to face-to-face support). - Compeer Community: Offers group events and celebrations among Compeers to strengthen social skills. - Peer-to-Peer: Matches clients with one another in supportive, one-on-one friendships. - Skillbuilders Program: Promotes social ties through structured life skills training.

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Peer to Peer Networking
Mental Health Issues
Friendly Telephoning Volunteer Opportunities
Buddy Program Volunteer Opportunities
Life Skills Education
Friendly Telephoning
Friendly Visiting
Connects individuals actively reentering society with resources and information that can improve their quality of life, assist with adjustment and help them become gainfully employed, as well as equip professionals with tools that promote positive outcomes. Also provides supportive and case management services.

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Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Peer to Peer Networking
Provides individual visiting with patients who are about to undergo or who have undergone ostomy surgery for purposes of support and information on day-to-day living with a urinary or intestinal diversion.

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Disease/Disability Information
Peer to Peer Networking
Colostomy Patients
Provides the next step towards virtual, one-on-one support providing the community with experienced mentors to help them overcome any huddle they may have to using their machines.

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Peer to Peer Networking
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Provides a peer support program to match adults coping with severe mental illness with a community volunteer for friendship and social skill building. Provided through a partnership with Compeer International. Opportunties in the program may include: - One-to-One Friendship Program: Offers face-to-face contact with adult volunteer. - Compeer Calling: Provides telephone support (may be offered in addition to face-to-face support). - Compeer Community: Offers group events and celebrations among Compeers to strengthen social skills. - Peer-to-Peer: Matches clients with one another in supportive, one-on-one friendships. - Skillbuilders Program: Promotes social ties through structured life skills training.

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Peer to Peer Networking
Mental Health Issues
Friendly Telephoning Volunteer Opportunities
Buddy Program Volunteer Opportunities
Life Skills Education
Friendly Telephoning
Friendly Visiting
Provides stomach and esophageal cancer support services. Services includes information about the cancers, a mentoring program, monthly support groups, and online educational and mental health and wellness seminars. Mentors help patients and caregivers understand the diagnosis, staging, treatment options, clinical trials, side effect management, research, management of the disease, and more. Mentors share their stories, tips, advice and concerns.

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Peer to Peer Networking
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Disease/Disability Information
Workshops/Symposiums
Provides information, education, and advocacy to health care providers and the general public around the issue of twin to twin transfusion syndrome, including forms of TTTS called TAPS (twin anemia polycythemia sequence), SIUGR (selective intrauterine growth restriction) and TRAP (twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence). Materials include phone and social media resources for families diagnosed, at risk and those that have delivered special needs children as a result of TTTS.

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Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Disease/Disability Information
Peer to Peer Networking
NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a free, eight-session educational program for adults with mental health conditions who are looking to better understand themselves and their recovery. Taught by trained leaders with lived experience, this program includes activities, discussions and informative videos. However, as with all NAMI programs, it does not include recommendations for treatment approaches. NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a safe, confidential space. The course provides an opportunity for mutual support and growth. Experience compassion and understanding from people who relate to your experiences. This is a place to learn more about recovery in an accepting environment. NAMI Peer-to-Peer helps you: - Set a vision and goals for the future - Partner with health care providers - Develop confidence for making decisions - Practice relaxation and stress reduction tools - Share your story - Strengthen relationships - Enhance communication skills - Learn about mental health treatment options.
Provides a program that helps veterans create bonds with other veterans through phone calls and a website.

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Veterans
Peer to Peer Networking