Peer Support Specialists

The Peer Outreach Program at DC Public Library supports library customers experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness.

Peers have been where you are and are here to support you. They have been trained and certified through the DC Department of Behavioral Health to help you navigate the system. Peers meet customers at branches throughout the library system. Peers work with customers to find shelter, housing, treatment programs, mental health services, food, clothing and much more.

Meet with a DC Public Library Certified Peer Support Specialist (also known as a Peer Navigator) if you need:

• Support while experiencing homelessness
• Help with returning to the community after time in jail or prison
• Help connecting to housing and other services because of partner abuse or domestic violence
• Help with an ID and other vital documents
• Assistance with finding medical care
• Ideas for housing
• Job and employment supports
• Help with food or clothing

Peers are role models who demonstrate competency in personal recovery, and by serving as a consumer advocate who provides clients with information and support. Peers build rapport and trust with a customer so that the hard work of moving out of homelessness, and/or into recovery, can begin.

This program is LGBTQIA2S+ Affirming. 

This service is supported in part by the 

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