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Who We Are
At Highlands Community Services, a Veteran Peer Specialist is a person with a mental health or co-occurring condition, actively engaged in their own recovery, who has been trained and certified to help others with these conditions, identify and achieve specific life and recovery goals.
Peer Specialists serve as role models by sharing their personal recovery stories, showing that recovery from mental illness is possible. They teach goal setting, problem solving, symptom management skills and a variety of recovery tools. They empower by helping others identify their strengths, supports, resources and skills. They advocate by working to eliminate the stigma of mental illness and act as community liaisons by identifying social supports in the community and encouraging the expansion of local community resources.
Crisis Telephone Contacts:
Monday through Friday from 8:30am-5:00pm: Call (276) 525-1550;
After Hours, Holidays, and Weekends: Call (276) 645-7400 for Central Dispatch – Bristol or (276) 676-6277 for Central Dispatch – Washington County;
Life Threatening Emergency: Call 911.