Peer Support & Warm Line

Being Here For You

 

Culturally informed mental health support services and resources continue to be a tremendous challenge in the Hmong community. Hmong Professionals in Northeast Wisconsin shared that mental well-being is a constant struggle for them personally and professionally. As a result, NEW Hmong Professionals has been working on culturally informed resources such as a peer support warmline and suicide prevention education and strategies. NEW Hmong has developed a peer support specialist program that will help train Hmong Professionals in becoming certified peer specialists. These certified peer specialists will help support a 24-hour warmline. The overall goal of this project is to decrease suicides and suicidal ideations by providing a culturally informed resource that can co-create safe spaces to discuss mental health challenges. Through trained Peer Support Specialists, we want to provide support to our Hmong community in making healthy choices.