Person-centered peer support is the process of giving and receiving inspiration and support to realize and accomplish sustained recovery from the standpoint that individuals diagnosed and living with mental health conditions can live a holistic and productive life of their own choosing. In the mental health community, peers offer their unique lived experience with mental health wellness and recovery to provide support focused on advocacy, education, mentoring, and motivation.

Anchoring Hopes Wellness Recovery Institute is a recovery-oriented peer run organization, established to promote mental health wellness and recovery through a trauma-informed holistic approach of evidenced-based practices, innovative education and training, and person-centered peer support.

To generate equitable opportunities for sustained mental health wellness and recovery, so that all persons with a mental health diagnosis can learn and know that they are not defined by their mental health diagnosis and that they have a right to a healthy, fulfilled, productive life.