The Values of Peer Support:

· Mutuality - the authentic two-way relationships between people through ‘the kinship of common experience’.

· Experiential knowledge - the learning, knowledge and wisdom that comes from personal lived experience of mental distress or addiction and recovery.

· Self-determination - the right for people to make free choices about their life and to be free from coercion on the basis of their mental distress or addiction.

· Participation - the right for people to participate and lead in mental health and/or addiction. Services including in the development or running of services as well as in their own treatment and recovery.

· Equity - the right of people who experience mental distress and/or addiction to have fair and equal opportunities to other citizens and to be free of discrimination.

· Recovery and Hope - the belief that there is always hope and that resiliency and meaningful recovery is possible for everyone.