For recovery & resilience, schools, and child- & family-serving programs
Lived experience, built into programs that last.
Peer support works — but only when it’s trained, structured, and sustainable. As a developmental and educational psychologist, recovery advocate, and peer support educator, I help organizations turn lived experience and good intentions into programs with real footing: trained people, sound practice, and the resilience to keep going. And before you build anything, I help you understand what your community actually needs — and how you’ll know it’s working.
Train your people
Peer Support Specialist Training
Develop and certify a capable, confident peer workforce.
Recovery & Resilience Program Design
Stand up or strengthen a program built to endure.
Support families & young people
Family & Youth Mediation
Navigate conflict in child- and family-serving settings with care.
Education & Resilience Workshops
Practical sessions for staff, educators, and caregivers.
Measure & assess
Community Needs Assessment
What your community actually needs, especially at the intersection of health, education, and other determinants of thriving communities.
Measuring What Matters
Evaluation frameworks that track real outcomes, not just activity.
Community Activation
Turn assessment into mobilized, engaged community.
Dr. Sarah Clark Wood, Ph.D., CPRS-T, is a developmental and educational psychologist, researcher, recovery advocate, and peer support educator based in the Richmond area. She teaches Human Development Across the Lifespan to Health Studies majors at the University of Richmond, and consults with recovery organizations — including the Master Center for Addiction Medicine — leading research and workshops, facilitating family support groups, and helping programs build behavioral-health and recovery work that lasts.
Let’s talk
Let’s talk about your community.
Whether you’re building a peer program from scratch or trying to prove the one you have is working, we can start with what your community needs most.
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