intellectual disability services, philadelphia, pa; monica scott, outreach substance abuse counselor, baltimore substance abuse systems, inc., baltimore, md. tom, peer-to-peer services is an increasingly unique and an important part of a recovery-oriented system of care, of systems whether municipal or state systems, that are looking to set up a recovery-oriented system of care. what is peer recovery support? peer recovery support is it involves people with lived experience of both addiction and/or mental health and in recovery, and it's using that lived experience as the fulcrum, or the leverage, to do the services. they're non-clinical, they're strength based, and they work on building trust with the person, and i would also say they are also mutually reciprocal, so the person giving help also gets help in the equation. very good. and leah, talk to me, i mean, we have both the substance use disorder and the mental health consumer recovery concepts that we are going to be talking about today in the show. so, tell me a little bit about, is there any difference in terms of recovery peer support between substance use disorde