ASCENDS’ Certified Peer Support staff meet often for classroom instruction and support groups that offer emotional support and teach social skills.  Our goal is to help increase our client’s feelings of self-worth, decrease social isolation and encourage independent living. Using evidence-based practices, we offer Hope!  Your Peers may better understand what life is like for you because they experience it themselves.

Codependency is a learned behavior often developed by those in relationships with addicts. In this class, volunteers learn what codependency is and how to recover from codependent patterns of behavior.

This group was created when the owner of a local funeral home contacted ASCEND and asked to assist in the creation of a grief support group.

This class has multiple community members who have lost a loved one, along with our volunteers.

LGBT group can help someone dealing with issues anywhere along a continuum – from the point where they are questioning their sexuality through dealing with the challenges of possibly coming out at work or struggling with gay relationship issues. We do this through peer support.

This means that support groups are led by other LGBT people. This allows LGBT community to support each other through life’s challenges.

Your Peers may better understand what life is like for you because they experience it themselves. ASCEND members meet to offer emotional support, and basic living and social skills that can help increase feelings of self-worth, decrease social isolation and encourage independent living.