Peer Recovery Center of Excellence - Communities of Practice
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence hosts monthly communities of practice, a type of affinity call, as spaces for peer recovery support specialists and those who supervise them to network, learn, share, practice, and grow together. The goal of these calls is to bring together a variety of diverse perspectives from across the country to share in mutual learning that is centered on topics relevant to the peer workforce.
Peer Recovery Support Specialists and supervisors who attend and participate in these communities of practice will receive a certificate of attendance. Due to the varying ways in which peer recovery support specialist recertification works, it is the responsibility of individual peer recovery support specialists to ensure these communities of practice meet their state’s recertification requirements.
Please join us for our March 2023 CoP Sessions
March Community of Practice for Peer Support Recovery Specialists: The Hope of Harm Reduction: Shared Values in Peer Support
This community of practice will focus on exploring how the values and practices that guide harm reduction intersect with those that guide peer support. We’ll look at overlapping values, the importance of honoring movement history, and how to put harm reduction into practice while providing peer support services.
Date / Time: March 15, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern (1pm Central / 12pm Mountain / 11am Pacific)
Registration URL: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvdemurD8sHtMpac2zoN81Ii6_hnee6anm
Facilitators: Caroline Mazel-Carlton
March Community of Practice for Peer Supervisors: Navigating Educational Stigma in Professional Settings
This community of practice will explore how PRSS are impacted by the belief that people in behavioral healthcare systems with higher education experiences are more qualified than those without. It will include conversation about designing hiring processes that de-center educational experience, exploring career ladders that don’t require degrees, and the importance of expanding what qualifies people to do good work.
Date / Time: March 22, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern (1pm Central / 12pm Mountain / 11am Pacific)
Registration URL: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuf-yqrTsqE9yXZMPqjzM6twWHPbyF5-y1
Facilitator: Tim Saubers
Previous Topics include:
Community of Practice for PRSS:
- Exploring and Understanding Foundational Principles and Values of Harm Reduction
- Peer Work in Institutional Settings
- Mandated Reporting
- Speak Truth to Power: Intersectional Advocacy
- Exploring Peer Run Respites as Effective Crisis Alternatives
- Exploring Certification Processes and their Impact on Growing the Workforce
- Growing as Professionals: Translating Prior Work Experience into Relevant Skills for Success
- Navigating Ethics and Boundaries as Peer Professionals
- Community Conversation: Supporting People Navigating Eating Challenges
- Supporting Pregnant and Parenting People
- Community Conversation: Harm Reduction
Community of Practice for Supervisors of PRSS:
- Writing and Implementing Policies and Procedures that Support People with Lived Experience
- Transitioning from a Direct Service Role to a Supervisory Role
- Peer Workers as Supervisors
- Building Connecting Using the 5 Critical Functions of Supervision
- Integrating Peer Support into Housing Services
- Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act and its Impact on Supervising Peer Recovery Support Specialists
- Language Challenges in Mental Health and Substance Use
- Values-Driven Evaluation: How to Meaningfully Demonstrate the Unique Impact of Peer Recovery Services
- Community Conversation: Supporting People Navigating Eating Challenges
- Supervising Veterans Providing Peer Services
- The Experience of Peers who are Supervised by Non-Peers
