Community Integration Project (CIP)

The Community Integration Project was created 15 years ago with the goal of expanding peer support and support groups for individuals in more restrictive living environments​. CIP engages with clients in IMDs, board and cares, hospitals, and jails.

Through CIP, we can implement peer support clubs inside a wide variety of restrictive living environments. Additionally, our peer mentors:

• encourage individuals to identify community based housing options that might serve them when they leave institutions;  

• help prepare individuals to move into their housing choices;

• connect individuals to existing local self-help and other recreational/social activities; and,

• provide support and training in important life skills such as active listening, interpersonal communication, self-advocacy, crisis intervention, and stress reduction.

To add a peer support group and other CIP services to your facility feel free to contact us at::

Narcisa Gallardo
(323) 346-0960
ngallardo@prpsn.org