Peer specialist draws on own struggles to stem mental health crisis

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer 7/8/144:00 AM

If Milwaukee County is going to slow the revolving door on its psychiatric hospital, it will need more people like Fraser Hartig.

Hartig can do what few doctors or nurses can: Speak from experience.

"I struggle with my mental illness. They struggle with theirs," said Hartig, 26, a soft-spoken guy with dark brown eyes and a scruffy goatee. "We are the same."

Hartig is part of a program launched by the county in September 2012 known as CLASP, the Community Linkages and Stabilization Program.

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