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Peer support is a powerful and affordable tool for providing people the knowledge, skills and encouragement needed to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors.
Ongoing support is a key factor in managing health. Even if individuals spend as much as 6 hours a year in a clinic or health professional’s office, that leaves them 8,760 hours they are “on your own” to manage their diet, physical activity, medications, stress, and other factors. Peer support provides assistance with these daily management tasks, social and emotional support to stay motivated and deal with the stress chronic disease often brings, and help in staying connected to clinical care.
In this section you will find information and resources to address the following questions:
- What is peer support?
- What does science say about the value and contribution of peer support?
- What does peer support look like in action?
- How can I share my research and experience to the evidence?
- Where can I find out more about the presentations and publications of Peers for Progress and Grantees?
- Where can I find out more about diabetes and other general management skills?
Peers for Progress is a program of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and supported by the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation.