Peer Support: Survivors Helping Survivors
All conflict survivors have the same basic needs: health care, the means to support themselves, and the skills to advocate for their human rights and inclusion in society. Survivor Corps addresses those needs by providing peer support services, in which survivors help one another overcome trauma and reclaim their lives, and by empowering those affected by conflict to actively participate in social change. Peer support helps individual survivors recover, and creates a network of empowered survivors capable of instituting social change locally and around the world.
Since 1997, our staff members have made more than 116,700 peer support visits to survivors. Our services are delivered by trained peer outreach workers who are also conflict survivors.
Advocacy Training: Cultivation survivor leadership
Cultivating Survivor Leadership
Survivor Corps works to ensure that the voices of those most affected by violent conflict are heard. Through peer support and training, we empower survivors to become effective human rights advocates. We also provide training, assistance and financial resources to partner organizations willing to work together to rebuild lives and communities.