About Us
D.R.E.A.M.S.=Dedicated to Recovery Education and Advocacy for Mental health and Co-occuring DisorderS.
DREAMS is an "after hours" recovery center offering peer to peer services.
What is meant by peer to peer and consumer run?
Our purpose is to promote an environment where peers help other peers enhance recovery & invite consumers to participate in all aspects of the program.
*What is meant by "recovery"?
Despite the disabling stigma, pain, isolation & loneliness experienced by individuals with mental health and co-occuring disorders, recovery is a healing process that is vital to developing a positive self esteem, sense of empowerment and expressing one's "voice".
*Education
The provision of information, guidance & support aimed at developing insight and understanding of one's emotional challenges and their impact on human behaviours and relationships.
*Advocacy
Action steps taken to enhance one's quality of life, through the expression of one's needs, exercise choice and promote public policy issues that promote consumer empowerment and control over their destiny.
*Why now?
Personal testimony and mental health research has shown that peer to peer services are a powerful and effective way of supporting recovery in others through role modeling and encouragement.