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Support From
Someone Who Gets It

Peer support offers hope, understanding, encouragement, and guidance from people with lived experience. You do not have to navigate mental health, recovery, or life's transitions alone.

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Questions about peer support? Call our team for more information.
515-642-7070

What is peer support?

Peer support is built on the power of lived experience. It connects you with someone who can offer practical encouragement, steady guidance, and real understanding because they have walked through their own recovery, mental health, or life transition journey.

This is not about being told what to do. It is about having someone beside you as you sort through what matters, build confidence, find resources, and take the next step at a pace that feels possible.

Inside Out peer support can help with mental health support, substance use recovery, life transitions, and advocacy or resource connection.

Hope
For what comes next
Trust
Through shared experience
Skills
For daily life
Links
To resources

Available peer support services

Support can look different depending on what you are carrying and where you are trying to go.

Mental Health Support

Encouragement, grounding, and practical support for people navigating emotional stress, recovery after crisis, or ongoing mental health challenges.

Substance Use Recovery

Nonjudgmental support from people who understand recovery as a process, with help building routines, connection, and motivation.

Life Transitions

Support when life is changing: returning home, rebuilding stability, adjusting to a new routine, or taking steps toward independence.

Advocacy & Resource Connection

Help identifying needs, finding resources, preparing for conversations, and feeling more confident asking for support.

How to get connected

If peer support sounds like the right fit, reach out and we will help you understand the next step.

1

Call our team

Call 515-642-7070 to ask about peer support availability and fit.

2

Share what you need

We will listen for what kind of support would be useful right now: mental health, recovery, transition, or resource connection.

3

Begin support

Together, you and your peer support specialist can focus on goals, resources, and practical next steps.

Your Peer Support contact

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Tony Rothmeyer

Peer Support Services

A little support can make the next step feel possible.

Call for more information about family, recovery, and peer support services.

Call 515-642-7070