Find meaningful connection withpeer support.
What could it mean for you to find meaningful connection. To find strategies to become your best self. To become empowered. We know that mutual support can help you reclaim your life.
Welcome to Mental Health Empowerment Project (MHEP)
We are a recipient run, not-for-profit corporation organized in 1988 to develop and strengthen self-help and mutual support/recovery activities throughout the United States. MHEP offers dynamic and cutting edge education, training, skill building and support that helps people to find their unique voice, connect to their personal power and recognize the power of peer support.
Programs and Services
Statewide Training
MHEP’s Training and Technical Assistance Center offers training and skills building activities to people in recovery, mental health professionals, and the community-at-large on a full range of topics that help people connect with their personal power and the power of self-help.
Empowerment Exchange
We offer advocacy and mentoring services that help people learn about and protect their rights with a focus on the individual’s expressed needs, desires and objectives. We also routinely refer people to obtain desired services in all systems.
Fresh Start Project
The Fresh Start Project, an initiative of Mental Health Empowerment Project, Inc., provides persons who are incarcerated at Westchester County Jail with a unique opportunity to pursue dual certification in peer support.
RISE Center
We offer advocacy and mentoring services that help people learn about and protect their rights with a focus on the individual’s expressed needs, desires and objectives. We also routinely refer people to obtain desired services in all systems.
PeerConnect518
Our Peer Support Services in Albany County are designed to encourage people to find their personal power, use their own unique voice and set direction that will help them to achieve their goals and reclaim their lives.