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Service providers' perspectives on youth peer support: the importance of integration and oversight - an interpretive
Courtney Devane1, Emily Jenkins2, Corey McAuliffe2
1School of Nursing, The University of British Columbia Faculty of Applied Science, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada courtney.devane@ubc.ca.
Objectives:
Peer support in youth mental health settings holds promise as a developmentally appropriate and impactful initiative; however, research exploring implementation remains limited. To advance the field and strengthen future implementation efforts, the aim of the present study was to generate new understandings about how non-peer service providers working alongside youth peer support workers experience the peer support role in youth mental health settings.
Design:
Guided by interpretive description and tenets of a research community partnership model, semi-structured interviews were conducted with non-peer service providers (n=11) across three integrated youth services centres in British Columbia, Canada, from August to December 2020. Data were analysed inductively using a constant comparative approach to identify and construct themes.
Results:
Participants emphasised integration and supervision of youth peer support workers as essential for successful peer programming within integrated youth services, highlighting three interconnected themes: defining supervisory roles, envisioning role clarity and capacity and governance of youth peer support services.
Conclusions:
Integrated youth services initiatives and peer-led agencies can play key roles-both directly and indirectly-to strengthen the governance and infrastructure of youth peer support.
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