Respite

Schedule a Stay

We welcome anyone 18+, with a place to go after their stay, that agrees to our communally curated Guest Agreement for Overnight Stays to join us for up to 6 nights per month as long as there is availability. Fill out the form below and a team member will reach out to you!

Interest Form

Donate Your Time/Services

We love volunteers! Tell us how you want to get involved in helping and let us know if you have specific skills or services you would like to offer. For questions about volunteering, or to join our volunteer email list to hear about no pressure opportunities, please email mary@peersupportspace.org

Join Our Facebook Volunteer Group

Donate Supplies

We are in need of handwritten letters for welcome baskets (something to say "I don't know you but care about you), gift cards, art supplies, plants, books, blankets, journals, snacks, and more.

Donations can be mailed to:

Peer Support Space

P.O. Box 677032

Orlando, FL 32867

Sponsor Us!

To encourage support that helps us get off the ground, our opening celebration sponsorship benefits include recognition during our opening as well as through December 2025. The impact each sponsor provides is tangible and real. Those who decide to become change makers through sponsorship allow us to exist.

2024 Sponsorship Options

Thank you for your kindness, generosity, and for doing your part to help our community heal.

Peer Services Save Lives.

Peer support empowers people to make the best decisions for them and to strive towards their goals in their communities. Peers are an essential component of recovery-focused systems and are key across settings and stages of recovery.

According to a recent article in the Psychiatric Times:

Persons in recovery from obstacles to mental wellness have insider knowledge of what it takes to have a life well lived, credibility and trustworthiness fostered by their lived experience, their passion to give back, and their dedication to making recovery a reality for others. Peers can also make invaluable contributions to better outcomes by advocating for, transforming, expanding, and providing effective mental health services.

According to Mental Health America:

Peer support is an evidence-based practice for the treatment of mental health challenges. Both quantitative and qualitative evidence indicate that peer support lowers the overall cost of mental health services by reducing re-hospitalization rates and days spent in inpatient services, increasing the use of outpatient services.

Peer support improves quality of life, increases patient engagement and self-management, and increases whole health.

Peers help increase hope, empowerment, self-efficacy, quality of and satisfaction with life.

Psychiatric Times (2018)

Respite users were 70% less likely to use inpatient or emergency services.

Psychiatric Services. (2015)

Peer support has been shown to decrease substance use, unmet needs, and demoralization.

Psychiatric Times (2018)

Respite users show statistically significant improvements in healing, and empowerment.

American Journal of Psychology. (2008)

Peer staff are better able to engage people in caring relationships.

Psychiatry Services (2006)

Respite guests experience improvement in self-esteem, mental health symptoms, & social activity.

Outlook. (Vol. Spring 2002)

We love connecting with new friends <3

Prefer text or call?

Our shared phone is available for reach out at any hour! If we are busy supporting a guest or doing a task we will call or text you back as soon as soon as possible.

Our phone number is: (407) 968 - 1288

Note: at this time our phone is not a warm line or resource to hold extended space for what you are navigating but to answer any questions you may have.

Overnight Peer Respite Services

Whatever you are navigating, you don't have to do it alone. Come take a break with us.