Peer Solutions was founded in 1996 with the mission of Peers working with peers to make the world a better place.
Our vision is safety, fairness, and respect normalized in our families, schools, workplaces, and communities.
Youth-led initiatives focused on prevention, leadership, and community impact.
Accessible tools, exercises, and spaces for grounding, reflection, and healing.
A youth-led program building leadership, accountability, and safer communities from within.
Youth-led organization focused on prevention, healing, and community-driven change.
We support young people, interrupt cycles of harm, and build safer communities.
Voices from the community
Real experiences from the people we work with.
Our Goals and Approach
We focus on prevention, addressing harm before it begins rather than only responding after.
Our work challenges the conditions that lead to cycles of harm by centering youth leadership, community care, and accessible resources to build safer, more connected communities.
To direct resources toward the health and well-being of our families, schools, communities, and governments.
To cultivate social norms, practices, and policies to ensure Safety, Fairness, and Respect.
To address and prevent the causes of trauma with honesty, empathy, compassion, and kindness.
To normalize self-advocacy, self-care, and sharing and using community resources.
To ensure strategies are evidence-informed, youth-led and developed with the communities we serve, and strive to be inclusive of all identities and abilities.
To build resiliency and protective factors supporting the Social Determinants of Health across the Social Ecological Model (SEM).
Thanks to our youth, family, school, community, government and funding partners!
We would like to extend our gratitude and recognize the partners who contribute their time, efforts, and resources to Peer Solutions. We are all Peers, and together, we are all the solution!
By and for the community.