The goal of peer support is to provide all California National Guard members with the opportunity to receive
emotional and tangible peer support through times of personal or professional crises and to help anticipate
and address potential difficulties. 

A Peer Support Person (PSP), enlisted, warrant officer or commissioned officer, is a specifically trained colleague
not a counselor or therapist. PSPs should be chosen from volunteers who are currently in good standing with their
 unit and who have received recommendations from their superiors and/or peers.  Considerations for selection of
PSP candidates include but are not limited to previous education and training, resolved traumatic experience, and
desirable interpersonal qualities, such as maturity, judgment and personal and professional credibility.