Peer support services are delivered by individuals who have common life experiences with the people they are serving.

Research has shown that peer support facilitates healing and reduces health care costs.  Peers also provides assistance that promotes a sense of belonging within the community.

Source: SAMHSA
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Located in Downtown Hyannis Minutes from the Bus Station and Main Street!
​Upstairs 145 Barnstable Rd. Hyannis!
​Dance in the Rain Statistics
​Hours:
Monday - Thursday 10AM - 4PM
Wednesday & Thursday open to 6PM
​We directly engage with on a average of 12.8 peers daily.
On a monthly basis we directly engage with over 260 peers.
Through our social media and newsletter we engage with over 1,630 individuals every month.

​Every Tuesday afternoon two peers from Dance in the Rain go to the partial program at Cape Cod Hospital to offer support to those in the program and on the unit.
Dance in the Rain believes that mental health challenges are community issues.  To help solve the issues facing the existing fractured mental health system we believe that it will take the many different Cape Cod communities to come together in their own unique way to help fill the gaps in the traditional mental health system.
​Dance... believes it is important to reach out to the many Cape Cod communities and engage them giving them an opportunity to offer support and share their resources as a way to help find solutions to fix the existing fractured mental health system. 
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Dance in the Rain
​Peer to Peer Mental Health Center
​nonprofit 501 c3 organization
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“Dance in the Rain Peer to Mental Health Center” is a safe place for people with mental illness, and or dual diagnosis to build healing, wholeness, self-empowerment, and accountability.  “Dance…”  is a drop-in style center offering multiple support groups, workshops, and meetings for people ages 14 years and older with mental health challenges living on Cape Cod.   It’s a place where wholeness and a person’s potential will be nurtured and allowed to grow.  “Dance…” with its various programs challenges an individual to face his/her mental illness and healing.  It’s also a place that strives to engage Cape and Islands communities in a concerted effort to end stigma and help promote the much-needed changes within the mental health system.

​Created and built by people with mental health challenges for people with mental health challenges.  "Dance..." offers unique lived experience perspectives to offer support to our peers.  We believe that a strong personal support system and peer engagement are some of the greatest assets a person with a mental health challenge can possess in his/her journey of healing.  We work hard to help individuals recognize who their supports are and to help them build strong support systems.

Dance in the Rain offers all of our services free to all of our peers because we understand the damaging toll isolation takes on the individual and in turn costs the community.
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"Dance in the Rain's" mission is to inspire and promote peer to peer empowerment with community programs built on engagement.  Our programs help foster self-advocacy and advocacy while nurturing and promoting balance and stability. In addition, "Dance in the Rain" is a creativity-centered organization devoted to equipping, encouraging, and empowering local aspiring artists at all levels of healing. Our workshops are places where participants' potential and expression are nurtured and allowed to grow in a judgement-free environment.  Our staff simultaneously strive to engage our Cape and Islands communities in a discussion to end stigma and foster compassion for those living with mental illness. 
Startling Statistics
*The Cape & Islands Region has the largest suicide rate in Massachusetts. 
* Preschoolers are the fasting growing market for antidepressants.  At least 4% of preschoolers are clinically depressed.  (Health and Human Services - Federal Government)
* Nationally, we loose one life by suicide every 15.8 minutes.  Suicide is the eleventh leading cause of death overall and is the third-leading cause of death among youth and young adults aged 15-24. (US Public Health Service)
At Dance in the Rain healing  flows through our peer developed programing. Through a combined effort of our peers we have created an ever evolving style of programing to meet the needs of our growing peer community.

Dance in the Rain's foundational platform is built upon peer engagement.  We recognize the importance for the individual to socialize with others who understand his/her unique illness.
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We strive to expand and gently foster positive and new experiences for individuals to begin building his/her own journey of healing.

Our programing has evolved through our combined experience living with mental illness and navigating the mental health system. 

We focus heavily on the arts as a way of expression.  Meditation to learn to quiet a restless mind.  Various discussion groups to help rebuild the ability to talk about life's difficult experiences. 

​Our drop-in style allows our peers to freely access our venue as their needs arise.    

Listen to a short video by Mary Munsell the founder of Dance in the Rain share a short story about why Dance in the Rain has become an important part of the mental health community on Cape Cod.  

Click the video on the left.