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    Liz Mombourquette

    Bridging Coordinator
    Wildflower Alliance
    Holyoke, Massachusetts

    Liz Mombourquette is a queer trauma survivor who grew up in Central Massachusetts and has navigated self-injury and thoughts of suicide from an early age. She brings these and other challenging life experiences to her work facilitating mutual support groups in hospital settings and in the community, bridging people from psychiatric hospitals and partnering for system change.

    In addition to her work as a bridger, Liz is involved in statewide advocacy for the integrity of peer roles within the state of Massachusetts. She has offered open testimony against discriminatory legislation, facilitated statewide meetings, and worked on subcommittees dedicated to defending peer roles from co-optation. Liz is a Certified Peer Specialist, a trainer for the Wildflower Alliance’s Alternatives to Suicide approach, as well as on a variety of other topics including Self-Injury, and Hearing Voices and Intentional Peer Support.

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