TY - JOUR AU - M. Swarbrick AU - M. S. Ayyala AU - P. H. Chen AU - Cmlr Brazeau A1 - AB - Peer support models have existed for decades in behavioral health care and are being developed for health care professionals to help address high rates of burnout and stress in the health care environment. Such models typically involve individuals from the same profession. With the concurrent increase of interprofessional integrated behavioral health care models, interprofessional peer support seems a viable model. This Open Forum describes how a peer support program for physicians and faculty scientists evolved to include a broader range of health care professionals, providing a framework for interprofessional peer support programs for the behavioral health care workforce. AD - Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, and Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold (Swarbrick); Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine (Ayyala), and Department of Family Medicine (Chen, Brazeau), Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark. AN - 39308171 BT - Psychiatr Serv C5 - Education & Workforce DA - Sep 23 DO - 10.1176/appi.ps.20240104 DP - NLM ET - 20240923 JF - Psychiatr Serv LA - eng N2 - Peer support models have existed for decades in behavioral health care and are being developed for health care professionals to help address high rates of burnout and stress in the health care environment. Such models typically involve individuals from the same profession. With the concurrent increase of interprofessional integrated behavioral health care models, interprofessional peer support seems a viable model. This Open Forum describes how a peer support program for physicians and faculty scientists evolved to include a broader range of health care professionals, providing a framework for interprofessional peer support programs for the behavioral health care workforce. PY - 2024 SN - 1075-2730 SP - appips20240104 ST - Cultivating Connections: An Interprofessional Peer Support Model T1 - Cultivating Connections: An Interprofessional Peer Support Model T2 - Psychiatr Serv TI - Cultivating Connections: An Interprofessional Peer Support Model U1 - Education & Workforce U3 - 10.1176/appi.ps.20240104 VO - 1075-2730 Y1 - 2024 ER -