Give Back to the Entrepreneurial Community
Entrepreneurship can be tough, but no one should have to navigate it alone.
As a Peer Volunteer, you’ll provide support, encouragement, and understanding to fellow entrepreneurs facing challenges. Your experience and time could be the lifeline someone needs.
What does a Peer Volunteer do?
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Peer support is a mental health service that is focused on the emotional and practical support between people who share a common experience.
Peer support is built on mutual respect and understanding, creating relationships that are free from hierarchy and power imbalances. It empowers individuals to make their own decisions about their well-being, using their personal experiences and insights, with guidance from a peer. Peer support emphasizes recovery, hope, and overall wellness through shared experiences in one-on-one settings. Unlike clinical approaches, it is values-driven and accessible, offering support that is rooted in lived experience rather than formal credentials.
Source: Peer Support Canada
What are the Commitments?
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We ask for our Peer Volunteers to commit up to 10 hours a month for one year.
Additionally, Peer Volunteers will be required to complete mandatory training (provided by Sing for Mental Health) that will take a total of 10 hours to complete.
This service is offered by telephone, text, or email, so Peer Volunteers can participate from any province or territory in Canada.
Your role includes:
Speaking with your matched Entrepreneur on an agreed upon frequency/schedule.
Completing short post-call documentation.
Having informal check-ins with S4MH as well as occasional review sessions of program success.
Why should I be a Peer Volunteer?
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The reported benefits of Peer Support are significant. A key benefit is often a trusting, safe, and accepting environment, where Peer Volunteers and the people they are supporting can feel a sense of community and belonging, based on shared experiences.
This atmosphere allows people to recover self-esteem, hope, meaning and purpose, empowerment, self-responsibility, and to experience personal growth.
Additionally Sing for Mental Health provides you with extensive training that is completely free. Being a Peer Volunteer also entitles you to free Sing for Mental Health membership benefits.
Interested?
Fill out the form below to become a Peer Volunteer
“It helps to be able to talk to someone who understands what you are going through and who will not judge you.”
