The Team

 Laura Rose, MPA NFPM

Laura Rose is a lady of many hats with a long career of providing creative and technical business services in the public and private sector. 

 
Laura Rose has served as a consultant for many of Oregon’s peer run organizations, programs, and other nonprofits at the local, statewide, national and international level.

Recognized as a dedicated consumer and family advocate, she elevates the voices of people with lived experience and equity perspectives to inform public policy, budgeting, and systems improvement at every level. 

Her work developing interactive digital dashboard systems and designs with visualization for decision support, performance measurement and outcomes analysis at the State of Oregon (Oregon Progress Board, Medicaid, Lean Transformation Initiative, BH Collaborative, Advisory Councils) and beyond has been featured in Public CIO, Governing, Government Technology and Entrepreneur. 

Her leadership service has included the Governor’s Behavioral Health Advisory Council (Program Services Committee), Governor's 988 Workgroup / Crisis System Advisory Workgroup & Steering Committee, Local Government Advisory Council (Co-Chair), Oregon Consumer Advisory Council (Chair Emeritus), Children’s System Advisory Council (Liaison), Oregon Alliance to Prevent Suicide (Executive Committee), Oregon Consumer Survivor Coalition, Oregon Family Workforce Alliance, Oregon Peer Delivered Services Coalition, Oregon Peer Legislative Advocacy Team (OPLAT), Oregon Peer Respite Information Network (OPR-IN) and the Oregon Peer Telehealth Information Network (OPT-IN). 

A long-time champion advancing peer support, peer respite and peer telehealth, Laura Rose provided and facilitated timely input for state investments and legislation.  Peer telehealth has profoundly impacted her life as she navigates the challenges of disabilities and trauma aftermath, opening many doors.

In 2019 she launched PeerGalaxy with visionary supporters.  Today, the PeerGalaxy Portal, Calendar & Community (https://www.peergalaxy.com) highlights over 128,000+ free monthly offerings of online- and telephone- accessible peer support, recovery and wellness activities, warmlines, webinars, special events, consumer input opportunities and more.  

She has a deep understanding of complex systems and leverages relationship mapping tools to facilitate collaboration across systems, communities, networks, and resources.
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Laura Rose, MPA NFPM
Consultant, Consumer and Family Advocate.
PeerGalaxy Portal, Calendar and Community. Developer

Oregon Consumer Advisory Council, Chair EmeritusOregon Alliance to Prevent Suicide, Executive Committee
Behavioral Health Crisis System Advisory Council, Member
Local Government Advisory Council, Co-Chair
Champion of Peer Telehealth, Peer Respite and Peer Support

https://peergalaxy.com

#peergalaxy

@peergalaxy

Jennifer M. Padron, CPS, CHW, M.Ed., MSW

INTERSECTING EMOTION, ENERGY & INTENTION 

From early psychosis intervention to pioneering digital-first creative activism, Jen Padron uses mental health innovation, transformation and social justice messaging into actionable bites of immersive storytelling.

As a Case Manager and Clinician with Advantage Behavioral Health Systems (2024-2025), Padron played a vital role with wraparound support interventions with early psychosis intervention strategies. Working within the ABHS Early Psychosis Intervention Collaborative, she brought interdisciplinary expertise to crisis management, delivering wraparound recovery-focused care that empowered individuals, families, and communities. 

She'd previously engaged in Crisis Intervention, Psychiatric Emergency Services, ER & CSU Triage, SI, HI, Mass Harm and Mobile Crisis Intervention with State of Georgia in DBHDD Regions 1, 2 and 4.

Principal Creative @ ART+ for Social Justice, Padron designs engaging bold, action-driven digital campaigns through **PEERX's digital platforms ** and peerx.media, amplifying social justice messaging and mental health advocacy in a streaming multimedia app.  Since SARS-CoV-2, I have worked with Surviving Race: The Intersection of Injustice, Disability, and Human Rights and peerGalaxy.com disrupted normative environments, driving systemic change with icon branding, digital storytelling, and cultural intersecting innovation.

STORYTELLING: FILM, SOUND & DESIGN

Padron’s work has always been a filmic intersection of emotions, energy, and the intentional seamless fusion of immersive filmic storytelling, soundscapes, and visual narratives. Through peerx.media, she integrates screen-based filmic images and sound via a streaming app centered on themes of hope and recovery, blending cinema, jazz standards, bossa nova, and experimental soundscapes evoking visceral, emotional depth.

Her background in sound editing, digital media, and theatrical adaptation was shaped by an undergraduate residency with Georgia Coates Performance Works Company during her time at the University of Washington School of Drama in Seattle. From managing motion picture theatrical houses to adapting stage and screen works into digital formats, Padron explores how technology transforms theatrical narratives, turning traditional storytelling into fluid, multisensory experiences.

EXPRESSIONISM & FINE ART: TOWERS, FIRE & MOVEMENT

Beyond digital storytelling, Padron is an outsider artist, known for bold, swirling strokes of deep blues, racecar yellows, fiery reds, and stark whites. Her expressionistic photography and dynamic acrylic paintings explore themes of destruction, resilience, and transformation—often featuring towers engulfed in flames, set against a backdrop of black smoke, night skies, and orange yellow sunflowery sun.  Her expansive artistic process incorporates metal edges, textured acrylics, and layered color fusion, drawing viewers into whirlwind of energy and emotion. 

Jen's  work has been seen at:

Boutique, College Park, GA (2017-2018)

Fine Art America (2012-2025) Fine Art America

City of Atlanta Photography Exhibitions, Atlanta, GA (2015–2018)

Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts (2020–2024, Valdosta, GA)

Valdosta State University Exhibitions, Valdosta, GA (2020–2022)

National Women’s Month Feature at Dekalb Library | Stone Mountain, GA (2023–2024)