People USA is a nonprofit organization that provides people living with mental health or substance use issues with the highest quality, effective peer services and behavioral health care.
Our mission is to educate, support, and empower people to understand, manage, and overcome behavioral health challenges. We accomplish this by creating, providing, and promoting behavioral health services that work better for people and communities.
People USA is peer-run, meaning we’re an agency made up of people with their own personal lived experiences with mental health or substance use challenges, recovery, and moving towards wellness.
People USA (formerly PEOPLe Inc.) has grown from a grassroots peer advocacy and support organization to become one of the most recognized and respected behavioral health organizations in the United States.
People USA has supported more than 30,000 individuals on their unique recovery journeys since our founding. More than 5,000 people each year connect with us to work on behavioral health and overall wellness. Since creating Rose House, People USA has diverted well over 20,000 hospital days.
People USA focuses on helping individuals meet their own wellness goals. Our approach to behavioral health is centered on engagement, environment, mutuality and philosophy.
People USA was born directly out of a struggle for civil rights, the Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement. It gave rise to Peer Services, which is a valuable addition, alternative, and source of continuing innovation to the behavioral health system.
Steve Miccio, CEO, is a spokesperson and advocate for behavioral health initiatives who has shifted the national paradigm in terms of crisis response and wellness services. His team of professionals has led more than 30 thousand people on their journeys toward wellness.
People USA proudly partners with many of the premier government and social service agencies in New York State, nationally and internationally.
People USA is a great, supportive work environment. All of our staff have lived experience, which does so much to inform our work and support our community. Openings for qualified individuals are listed here.
Read what the media are saying about People USA’s innovations and services.
People USA
126 Innis Ave. Poughkeepsie, NY • (845) 452-2728 • info@people-usa.org
126 Innis Ave.
Poughkeepsie, NY
(845) 452-2728
info@people-usa.org
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