Peer Recovery Support Services Mentoring Initiative (PRSSMI)

The Peer Recovery Support Services Mentoring Initiative (PRSSMI) promotes networking and program-to-program learning among organizations that are implementing PRSS in criminal justice settings. This opportunity provides an exchange of promising approaches, best practices, and evidence-supported services to enhance the capacity of organizations to develop and/or improve their own PRSS programs. he purposes of PRSSMI are to: Promote peer-to-peer learning among organizations that are implementing PRSS in criminal justice settings; Disseminate evidence-supported PRSS programming, promising approaches, and best practices; Enhance the capacity to develop PRSS as a component of organizations' diversion, alternatives to incarceration, or other criminal justice-focused programs; Improve ability to successfully implement a PRSS program, in collaboration with community partners. PRSSMI provides an opportunity for new or early-stage peer programs to be matched with and learn from an experienced program in a structured way.