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We are retiring the term “Senior Peer Counseling” and moving forward with an aging positive “Peer Counseling” Program.
For the first time since before COVID-19, PFS has trained five new Spanish-speaking Peer Counselors called “La Esperanza Vive” that will be matched with five people in need of peer support.
Veronika Park, PFS Peer Counseling Coordinator- Latinx, led the training alongside a professional Clinical Supervisor, to make a comfortable and confidential environment so that questions and concerns could be openly discussed.
“Heavy topics such as grief, mental health, Alzheimer’s, and domestic abuse are discussed at length with the peer counselors. Throughout the training, the group empathy was very apparent. Some of these topics, like grief, is something we could all relate too. The support everyone displayed proved to me how well they would all do as counselors.” Said Veronika.
