Partner With Us

The mission of the Peer & Family Support Program is to provide mentoring and support to people impacted by paralysis across the country. The best way to expand our reach is to partner with existing mentoring programs in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and other organizations. Additionally, we work to establish and introduce new programs at facilities that do not currently offer mentoring.

Our partners benefit from working with the Reeve Foundation by having access to a large pool of well trained and certified mentors. Our mentor pool is racially, ethnically and geographically diverse and also diverse in terms of level of injury/ function and paralyzing condition.

The Reeve Foundation benefits from working with well respected, established mentoring programs by tapping into their knowledge of the community, as well as accessing a local pool of talented mentors.

Most importantly, the nation, state, and local community all benefit from these joint efforts.

Benefits of Partnering With The Reeve Foundation

• Organizations that do not currently offer a peer mentor program can begin to provide mentoring at no cost.
• Organizations that do offer peer mentoring will enhance and expand their current program at no additional cost.
• Standardized national training curriculum developed and managed by the Reeve Foundation.
• Larger and more diverse pool of mentors.
• Direct access to Reeve Foundation program coordinators to provide mentor/peer management and administrative functions like peer/mentor matching, data collection, reporting, etc.
• Stronger peer/mentor matches by tapping into a robust network within the state, region, and nation.
• Optimal utilization of the partner’s peer mentors through additional mentoring opportunities.
• Training on the services provided by the Reeve Foundation’s National Paralysis Resource Center (NPRC) to equip the partner and their peer mentors with national resources that will complement their knowledge of the local community.
• Promotion as a Reeve Foundation partner.
• Evaluation and surveillance process to assess peer satisfaction and identify emerging needs to further tailor training content.

Schedule an In-service

In-services are a simple and easy way to make an organization more familiar with the Peer & Family Support Program and for you to help raise awareness of the benefits of peer mentoring in your community.

A Reeve Foundation staff member will make a brief 20-30 minute presentation using video- conferencing and answer any questions from the audience. It is a great opportunity to provide more detail about the program to a large group at once and for us to learn more about the host organization and community.

We encourage the host to invite staff, clients, board members and even other partnering groups. Some have held “brown bag lunch seminars,” but we can schedule the in-service at any point throughout the day.

Let’s Join Forces

We are interested in talking to hospitals, rehabilitation centers, healthcare facilities, foundations, support groups, independent mentor programs and other organizations that are interested or currently offer peer mentoring services.

We offer two different types of partnerships. To get a sense of what is required, please review our agreements:
– Associate (PDF)
– Standard (PDF)

We realize that agreements may need to be modified and are open to discussing how we can best partner and support each other. However, there are core aspects of the program that cannot be modified, such as the training and certification requirements, as well as our matching philosophy.

If you would like to discuss partnerships please email Bill Cawley, Director of the Peer & Family Support Program, at [email protected].

Download the latest Peer & Family Support Program brochure.

Partners