Peer assistance is based on mutual assistance between people suffering or having suffered from a psychiatric or psychological illness.
Sharing the experience of illness and the recovery journey constitutes its fundamental principles. It can take several forms: participation in discussion groups within user associations, meetings in mutual aid groups or even the integration of volunteer or professional peer helpers into care services.
In Carpentras, Eric Joly and Michel Dugnat, both directly and personally concerned by peer aid, respectively president and member of “Chime“(Contactless, Hope, Identity, Meaning, Empowerment), which can be translated as “Contact, Hope, Identity, Giving meaning back to your life, to what you have experienced, and Power to act and decide”help psychiatric users with their advice and expertise to recover.
Projects
Chime has a triple project: the creation, with a general bookstore, of a living book festival, including the testimonies of people suffering from a psychological disorder, who would have a mission sheet as volunteers or employees of the bookstore; the presence of pai…
