Peer Mentoring Initiative

Peer Mentors are former patients who have learned how to manage their condition and navigate resources in the community to pursue life goals. This includes issues like returning to school, living independently or work after injury. Empowering Spinal Cord Injured Persons (ESCIP) is an IHIF’s Peer Mentoring Initiative to introduce wheelchair users with various ambulatory disabilities — including traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury — to such Peer Mentors (www.escip.org). ESCIP Peer Mentors teach wheelchair and independent home living skills as part of a transitional living program, whose participants also make use of the IHIF Rehab Centre in NOIDA, DELHI,PATNA, JODHPUR.. ESCIP Peer Mentors also introduce Mentees to various adaptive sports communities and online support groups. To date, this collaboration has resulted in patients transitioning to become Peer Mentors and active community citizens.
More Than Walking Incorporated is a proud supporter of this program and collaborates to help fundraise and raise awareness in the U.S. about this effort (www.morethanwalking.com)