Mental Health Peer Connection

Mental Health Peer Connection is a peer run agency that empowers, educates, and strives for equality for persons with mental illness to live to their full potential. A peer is someone who has similar life experiences with the people they serve. This is done through meeting an individual with mental illness in their environment and assist them in obtaining their goals.

Recovery: The Recovery Program consists of three components in addressing the needs of people with mental illness. The components are the Institutional Based, the Community Based, and the Vocational Based. Each is designed to assist people with mental illness in their recovery process from mental illness.

• Institutional Based Service:

  Purpose: To meet mental health recipients in psychiatric institutions in Erie County: the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo General Hospital, and Brylin Hospital, and to assist them in their goals of reentering the community.

• Community Based Services:

  Purpose: To assist people in Erie County with mental illness to overcome obstacles in community living that could restrict independence. Populations targeted are "hard to serve" mentally ill individuals.

• Vocational Based Services:

  Purpose: To recruit people with serious mental illness and those with mental illness who are homeless, living in Erie County, to set goals of employment and to assist these individuals with rapid employment.

• List of M H P C Services