Measuring What Matters in Peer Support Programs is a learning session designed to help peer specialists, program leads, supervisors, and organizations feel more confident and clear about how to approach evaluation in ways that reflect the values of peer support. Rather than focusing on complex or overly clinical methods, this session views evaluation as a practical tool for learning, reflection, and telling the story of peer work.

Participants will explore ways to identify and measure outcomes that truly reflect peer support, such as hope, connection, empowerment, and community. The session will walk through how to select evaluation approaches that are both meaningful and manageable, while remaining grounded in lived experience. We’ll also discuss how programs can use what they learn from evaluation to strengthen services, advocate for resources, and demonstrate the impact of their work to partners and funders.

This learning session is designed for peer specialists, program leads, supervisors, evaluators, and others who support or manage peer support programs. By the end of the session, participants will be able to identify outcomes that reflect peer support values, match those outcomes to practical evaluation measures, and use evaluation findings to support reflection and continuous improvement in their programs.