Richard Youins

Richard Youins is a Research Assistant and Community Engagement Leader with the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH). He is a Certified Peer Support and Recovery Professional (CPSRP), peer supporter, and peer supervisor who brings lived expertise with mental health, substance use, and physical health challenges to community-engaged research and systems-change initiatives. Born and raised in New Haven, Richard has extensive experience in peer service delivery, recruitment, participatory research, advocacy, and community partnership building, and is also a musician and co-founder of Survivors of Society Rising, a theater-based initiative developed with Yale PRCH and the Connecticut Mental Health Center.