Compeer

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| formation = {{start date|1973|df=y}}

| founder = Bernice W. Skirboll

| founding_location = Rochester, New York

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| status = Non-profit

| purpose = Support for individuals affected by mental illness

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| methods = Adult men and women volunteer to regularly spend time with an adult or youth who is receiving mental health services.

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| membership = 5000

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Compeer, Inc.{{Cite web |title=Compeer International – Compeer International |url=https://compeer.org/ |access-date=2023-02-07 |language=en-US}} is an international, non-profit organization centered around support for mental illness. The first Compeer program was established in Rochester, New York[http://www.rochester.compeer.org/ Compeer] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506105055/http://www.rochester.compeer.org/ |date=2008-05-06 }} in 1973 by Bernice W. Skirboll.{{Cite book|title=An Introduction to Human Services|last1=Woodside|first1=Marianne|last2=McClam|first2=Tricia|date=1990|publisher=Brooks/Cole Publishing Company|isbn=9780534130268|location=|pages=72}}

Volunteer-based model

The Compeer model matches a volunteer from the community with an individual with mental illness from the same community.{{Cite book|title=Helping Families Cope With Mental Illness|last1=Lefley|first1=Harriet P.|last2=Wasow|first2=Mona|date=2013|publisher=Harwood Academic Publishers|isbn=978-3718605804|location=Chur, Switzerland|pages=186}} The volunteers are provided training and resources related to mental health care throughout the program. Adult volunteers then go on to spend time regularly with an adult or youth who is receiving mental health services. The organization's goal is to provide supportive friendships for people in mental health care, typically in complement to other therapies, in order to support them towards recovery from mental illness.{{cite web|url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/11-3798675|title=Compeer Inc|website=Guidestar.org|accessdate=14 March 2017}}

The National Institute of Mental Health chose Compeer as a model program in 1982 and helped fund the development of similar programs throughout the United States.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} Today, Compeer is an international mental health organization with approximately 5,000 volunteers at nearly 100 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.[http://www.compeer.org/about/history.htm Compeer - About Us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725084048/http://www.compeer.org/about/history.htm |date=2008-07-25 }} The volunteer program has more than 80 chapters that serve about 65,000 adults and children around the world.{{Cite book|title=Schizophrenia For Dummies|last1=Levine|first1=Jerome|last2=Levine|first2=Irene S.|date=2009|publisher=Wiley Publishing, Inc.|isbn=9780470259276|location=Hoboken, NJ|pages=[https://archive.org/details/schizophreniafor0000levi/page/181 181]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/schizophreniafor0000levi/page/181}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070407134157/http://www.compeer.org/ Compeer International Home Page]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100923033855/http://www.compeer.org/Locations/tabid/2536/Default.aspx List of Compeer Program Locations]

Category:Charities for disabled people

Category:Mental health organizations based in New York (state)