Please vote for the work of peer specialists!

[Steve Harrington]

 

Hi Everyone,

Please vote to make the work of peer specialists the winner of the 2013 Scattergood Foundation Innovation Award!
We are excited to report an innovation, Certified Peer Specialist Services and the Peer Empowerment Programs of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania has been selected as one of the five finalists for this award out of a field of 61 applicants!

The winner will be determined by voting, and I am writing to ask for your vote to make the work of peer specialists the winner!

You can vote from now until March 18, 2013. A vote for our innovation is a chance for peer specialists to shine, and to add to the expanding evidence base for this growing profession. Voting is easy: just click on this link:

http://scattergoodfoundation.org/innovideas/mental-health-association-southeastern-pennsylvania 
(http://scattergoodfoundation.org/innovideas/mental-health-association-southeastern-pennsylvania) and scroll down until you see Vote for This Innovation.

Click on one of the circles and add your name and your email address (which will be kept confidential). If you can't read the letters and/or numbers that you need to reproduce in order to vote, click on the first little blue icon (above the speaker and question mark icons) until you see letters and/or numbers that you can copy. Then press Submit.

Please feel free to post this on your Facebook page, or share with other e-lists!

Again, we hope that you will show your support for peer specialists and for the peer-to-peer programs of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania by voting on the Scattergood website!

Questions about the innovation?

Please contact Susan Rogers at sro...@mhasp.org (mailto:sro...@mhasp.org) .
Thanks!
Susan
Susan Rogers
Director
National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse
And
Director of Special Projects
Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
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