Behavioral Health
Peer Support

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Peer Support Tools, Training, and Certification


Peer Support Hands-on Tools:

Benefits:

  • Increase knowledge for mental health, substance use, and life skills topics

  • Enhance engagement skills by reaching different learning styles

  • Improve group facilitation skills with structured facilitation techniques


Peer Support On-line Tools:

Additional Benefits:

  • Increase access — reach remote individuals; eliminate time and distance barriers

  • Streamlined documentation — capture engagement usage and user topic reports data

  • Engage with multiple languages (coming soon)


Peer Support Training and Certification:


Behavioral Health Peer Support Certification

Satisfies Requirements for the Certified Mental Health Peer Credential and
SUD Peer Recovery Credential
Learn more at www.ccappcredentialing.org

Live, Online, 46 Hours

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Includes R1 Peer Support Kit & 4 Facilitator Guides

 

What is Behavioral Health Peer Support?

A Behavioral Health Peer Support Specialist promotes recovery and removes barriers and obstacles to recovery, serving as a personal guide and mentor for people seeking or already in recover from an addition to alcohol and or other drugs. There are many other titles that are used for this sought after position. What distinguishes a peer support specialist from other positions is that we stay in the lane of providing support for people in recovery from an addiction to alcohol and or other drugs.

Participants will:

  • Describe Peer Support role and functions

  • List the components, core values, and guiding principles of recovery

  • Explore many dimensions of recovery and recovery peer support

  • Discover attitudes about self disclosure and sharing your story

  • Understand the stages of recovery

  • Describe the stages of change and their applications

  • Increase their awareness of culture, power, and privilege

  • Address ethical and boundary issues

  • Experience recovery wellness planning

  • Practice newly acquired skills

Who should attend the Peer Support Training?

Anyone interested in being agents of change in our communities. The Behavioral Health Peer Support Training is an innovative new approach to healing people’s lives that is unlike any other training. Utilizing a dynamic approach to learning that blends both process and content. If you’re ready to learn, be challenged, and reap valuable rewards for life, this training is a must.

Price: $1,300 ($1,200 per person for 10 or more) includes materials, books, and R1 Learning Peer Support Kit

Date: November 7-18, 2022, 4-hours per day (Monday through Friday), 9:00 AM-2:00 PM PT, 12:00-5:00 PM ET


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