Today, on Thursday October 16th, 2025 we celebrate the incredible strength, insight, and resilience of peer supporters across Canada and around the world. Your lived experience is incredibly valuable to the peers that you support and is a necessary component of any systems change. Thank you for bringing your lived expertise, your training and your skills to your peers and your communities on a daily basis.

To our allies: lean in, keep learning, and keep showing up. Honouring the work of our lived-experience workforce isn’t just about applause, it’s about action. That means understanding the practice deeply, advocating for our peers, and helping ensure that peer support is inclusive, accessible, and representative of all communities, including those too often sidelined.

Today is a day to celebrate, but let’s also commit to the ongoing work of equity, representation, and recognition. Because peer support works best when everyone has a seat at the table.

With gratitude and solidarity,
Peer Support Canada