Peggy is the Associate Director of the Center of Alcohol & Substance Use Studies and a Research Professor in the Applied Department of Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.  Peggy has also worked for 25 years at the Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey Wellness Institute creating innovative wellness initiatives and tools. 

She developed a strength based 8-dimensional wellness model to promote recovery from mental health and substance use and wellness self-care programs for caregiver’s, families, youth, and professionals. Peggy is known for bringing the voices and needs of people to the table by collaborating with the peer community and family groups to identify and address social determinants that are barriers to recovery and wellness. She has made significant contributions to the body of literature in occupational therapy, nursing, and community behavioral health care practice, focused on wellness, peer support, health disparities and social determinants of health, employment, trauma, and self-care. 

For more information 

https://alcoholstudies.rutgers.edu/people/leadership/margaret-peggy-swarbrick-phd-faota/