Career Path: Peer Support Worker (Canada)

Peer Support Workers leverage their unique lived experience with mental health challenges, addiction, or trauma to provide empathetic, relational, and practical support to individuals and groups. They facilitate recovery-oriented programs, promote harm reduction strategies, deliver community education, and advocate for clients within health and social service systems. This role is focused on fostering trust, empowerment, self-advocacy, and often involves working collaboratively within interdisciplinary teams to support client healing journeys.