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Mission Statement of Region I Peer Support Centers
(The Alternative Life Center)

“The Mission of The Alternative Life Center” is to provide a sanctuary where people learn to create a personal vision leading to their own recovery. This journey toward recovery occurs in a compassionate atmosphere through education, peer support, sharing of common experiences and utilizing individual as well as community resources”. 

A Welcome From The Director:

On behalf of the members and the board of Directors of Northern New Hampshire, Region I Peer Support, The Alternative Life Center, I wish to welcome you to our new website.

The Alternative Life Center and it’s four other sites in Northern New Hampshire, are Peer Support Centers that focus on our members mental health, well being and recovery. Through our groups and workshops, our members receive the tools that they need to move forward in their mental health recovery. We have five sites through out northern New Hampshire: The Alternative Life Center in Conway, The Alternative Life Center South in Wolfeboro, Serenity Steps in Berlin, The Haven in Colebrook and The Littleton Peer Support Center in Littleton, New Hampshire.

What is Peer Support and how is it different from traditional mental health centers?

Mental Health Peer Support has been active in the state of New Hampshire for more than fifteen years. We are non-professional. All of our staff have been through some mental health crisis and can identify directly with our membership. This means that members and staff can relate to each other on a common ground. Members relate to other members. A bond is made.

What do we wish to achieve with this site?

We wish to show the public that there is another way to approach mental health without using labels (bi-polar, psychotic, etc. ) We give our members the tools that they need so that they can take care of themselves. We don’t want to know what your “diagnosis” is. We want to know who you are as a person.

In July 2008, we will be beginning our tenth year. This is a very exciting time for us.

As you glance through our website, you will find that each center has different educational groups and different social events. If you are having mental health problems, come visit us and perhaps you will learn a new way to take care of yourself, concentrating on HOPE and RECOVERY.