Join us for this interactive, 8-session series where we’ll explore tools your whole team can use to navigate challenges, make informed decisions, and improve organizational processes. While strategic planning provides the vision for where your organization is headed, strategic thinking tools are necessary for responding to unanticipated opportunities and barriers. We will learn about and […]
In this community dialogue, we’ll host a panel of peer leaders to discuss the importance of approaching our understanding of peer services through the lens of harm reduction. Historically, peer services, certifications, and trainings have been built around abstinence-based models of recovery in contradiction to common peer values such as multiple pathways and self-determination. This […]
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence, in partnership with Communities for Recovery, is hosting monthly virtual networking sessions to gather recovery community stakeholders interested in addressing communication access challenges and developing solutions. Communication access means providing assistance to all who need it, including individuals who are Deaf or have hearing loss, are blind or have low […]
Whether designing a research study or creating a new evaluation process, engaging with stakeholders at every phase yields more realistic, relevant, and useful results. In this session of our Program Evaluation & Research Learning Exchanges, we’ll be taking a closer look at the importance of including the right people when designing and implementing new programs […]
Join us for this interactive, 8-session series where we’ll explore tools your whole team can use to navigate challenges, make informed decisions, and improve organizational processes. While strategic planning provides the vision for where your organization is headed, strategic thinking tools are necessary for responding to unanticipated opportunities and barriers. We will learn about and […]
Description: This community of practice will focus on exploring the impact of the ongoing climate crisis on mental health and what that means for peer support. We’ll explore the importance of understanding the link between climate change and mental health, innovative, youth-led solutions, and how to provide peer support that takes all of this into […]
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence, in partnership with Communities for Recovery, is hosting monthly virtual networking sessions to gather recovery community stakeholders interested in addressing communication access challenges and developing solutions. Communication access means providing assistance to all who need it, including individuals who are Deaf or have hearing loss, are blind or have low […]
Description: In this community of practice, we’ll discuss ways that supervisors can move away from monitoring staff recovery and put peer values into practice in order to support staff wellness. We’ll talk about ways to center the needs of staff as well as boundaries around monitoring staff recovery vs. appropriate workplace oversight. Facilitator: Christina Carney […]
In this session, we’ll discuss the nuts and bolts of creating and testing an evaluation instrument. What outcomes should we measure? How do we measure them? Who do we ask? What do we ask? Did we capture the information we wanted? What do we do with the information we captured? All of these are vital […]
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence, in partnership with Communities for Recovery, is hosting monthly virtual networking sessions to gather recovery community stakeholders interested in addressing communication access challenges and developing solutions. Communication access means providing assistance to all who need it, including individuals who are Deaf or have hearing loss, are blind or have low […]
Description: In this community of practice, we’ll focus on the important intersection of harm reduction and perinatal care. We’ll explore the biases that exist with systems toward pregnant people who use substances, relevant data, and forward-thinking alternative approaches. We’ll also discuss the role that PRSS have to play in supporting pregnant people who use substances. […]
Most evaluations are designed to measure outcomes. Process evaluation helps the evaluators determine whether program activities have been implemented effectively and measure their impact on outcomes. In this session, we will learn about how to develop process evaluations and how it can inform organizational practices.
The purpose of this learning collaborative is to provide peer recovery support specialist employers in a variety of settings with the opportunity to learn more about how their policies and procedures, organizational structures, partners, and systems in which they’re embedded play a role in retaining their PRSS staff. Historically, workforce retention has been focused on building workplaces that support wellness, centered on burnout and compassion fatigue. However, there has been a large gap regarding the role that employers and systems play in contributing to staff turnover and PRSS leaving the profession. Through engagement in small and large group sessions, as well as organization-specific TA, employers will be able to work with uniquely qualified experts from diverse professional backgrounds to build tools and skills to reshape their understanding of the peer ethos and adjust organizational policy in order to better retain their PRSS staff.
This series will focus on 5 employer / organization types: Peer run respites, RCOs, substance use treatment agencies, certified community behavioral health clinics, and community-based organizations or programs. We anticipate working with a cohort of 15 organizations from around the country. Please be aware that this learning collaborative is open to teams of 2 - 4 people per organization and is intended for those in management roles such as directors.
We will host 6 sessions and 1 kickoff meeting in addition to monthly organization / program-specific TA that participants will receive from their facilitators. Each participating organization is required to meet with their assigned facilitator at least once per month and is required to attend all of the plenary sessions. Please keep this in mind when applying as we are looking for organizations that can maintain this commitment throughout the learning collaborative.
Session Dates: 2nd Tuesday of the month: 12-2pm Eastern / 11am - 1pm Central / 10am - 12pm Mountain / 9 - 11am Pacific
Link to Apply (Deadline December 15th): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YXPGCDB.
For any additional questions please contact Tim Saubers, at tim.saubers@austin.utexas.edu.
Join us for this interactive, 8-session series where we’ll explore tools your whole team can use to navigate challenges, make informed decisions, and improve organizational processes. While strategic planning provides the vision for where your organization is headed, strategic thinking tools are necessary for responding to unanticipated opportunities and barriers.
We will learn about and practice using empathy maps, tools for values alignment, environmental scans, SWOT/SOAR analysis, decisional balance, and more.
In each session we will introduce a tool (or two!), discuss how the tool will benefit your team, and draft a plan for putting the tool into action.
Facilitators:
Weekly Sessions: Nov. 1 - Dec. 20
Wednesdays, 1 - 2p ET
Register once for all 8 sessions! Reminders will be sent, but please save all the sessions to your calendars (available from your confirmation email).
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence, in partnership with Communities for Recovery, is hosting monthly virtual networking sessions to gather recovery community stakeholders interested in addressing communication access challenges and developing solutions.
Communication access means providing assistance to all who need it, including individuals who are Deaf or have hearing loss, are blind or have low vision, or people who have limited English proficiency (LEP). Effective communication access ensures an equal opportunity to participate in, and enjoy the benefits of, a service, program, or activity. At this time, the virtual networking sessions will focus on communication access related to hearing loss or deafness with the PRS workforce.
Participants of these sessions might be: Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) Peer Recovery Specialists, other professionals serving the DHH recovery community, and leaders interested in building the infrastructure and support for the DHH Peer Recovery Specialist workforce.
The virtual networking sessions are a space for attendees to discuss what is working and to identify potential solutions to the communication access barriers the DHH PRS workforce faces.
Learning Objectives:
November 2023 - August 2024 (3rd Monday of each month)
1-2p ET (12p CT/11a MT/10a PT)
Register once for all 10 sessions! Reminders will be sent, but please save all the sessions to your calendars (available from your confirmation email). Also, note that January's session has been moved to Jan. 22nd, as Jan. 15th is MLK Jr. Day.
The PR CoE is hosting monthly learning exchanges for staff from recovery organizations and peers who are interested in learning more about evaluation planning and implementation, assessment, and research engagement. The goal of these sessions is to create space for shared learning, networking, and growth. Sessions will consist of presentations from folks doing this work every day and discussions amongst participants. Join us in better understanding evaluation and research for peer recovery!
In 2021, the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence conducted an extensive national needs assessment regarding capacity building needs for Recovery Community Organizations (RCOs). The study found that a common barrier to sustainability is the absence of solid organizational infrastructure, often driven by a lack of funding and understaffing.
This learning series focuses on key tools and resources RCOs, RCCs, and other peer-run organizations need to develop a solid foundation from which to grow.
Series Learning Objectives:
Each topic will have two consecutive sessions. In order to participate in the second session, attendance at the first is required.
Join the PR CoE in collaboration with the Clinical Training Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health (CTC-SRH) for their Clinician Café.
The Clinician Café is a virtual platform with curated resources including podcasts, research articles, resources, and two 'Tea and Talk' Zoom discussions. This self-guided platform is open for the week of October 23 - October 30, and will explore existing and emerging sexual and reproductive healthcare services while applying a harm reduction lens within the Title X setting and in the surrounding communities.
Registration will grant you access to the whole event including:
Find out more about this event here.
Unsure about research, evaluation, data collection, and how it relates to your daily workflows? TRx Development Solutions is providing a 3-session series for peers and organizations with peer recovery support services around meaningful research, evaluation, and data collection. This series is designed to assist peers and recovery organizations on how to explore meaningful research, how to engage with research, how to unpack the usefulness of data in day-to-day work, and how to effectively collect and use the data required by SAMHSA.
Session Topics & Dates:
The Phoenix Tales Recovery Storytelling workshop is no longer accepting applications. We had a resounding response and the application process is now closed. Please check out our other events for additional opportunities.
Want to transform the way you share your lived experience and significantly deepen your impact? Phoenix Tales Recovery Storytelling is a creative, collaborative, informative, and fun process in which participants cultivate both the craft and advocacy of their storytelling with techniques from Theatre, Recovery Coaching, and the art form of Personal Narrative Storytelling. Participants will craft a personal story of their own about an experience from their past, understand positive recovery messaging in stories, discover a more authentic voice, and reduce internal and external stigma and shame, resulting in a story that is a more effective tool for healing the self and deeper impact for advocacy and social change. Participants leave with the skills to apply these techniques to their storytelling and advocacy work in the future.
Please note, this is a 9.5 hour training that takes place over two days.
Dates (must attend both days):
Time: 10:45a - 3:30p ET/9:45a - 2:30p CT/8:45a - 1:30p MT/7:45a - 12:30p PT
This workshop has a maximum capacity of 24 individuals. The first step in the process is an application to attend, which is linked below. You will be notified on Friday, 6/23/23 whether your application has been accepted and if it has, provided a link to register. Because of the limited seats, we ask that you are available for both sessions in full before applying.
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence, in partnership with Transgender Equity Consulting, is offering a series of workshops for peer recovery support specialists to improve their ability to work with Trans, Gender nonconforming, and Nonbinary (TGNCNB) folks. The primary goal of these workshops is to provide all participants with tools that they can use every day which will better equip them to work with TGNCNB individuals. Additionally, these workshops will frame the information presented in a way that connects the radical history of peer support work to working with and supporting marginalized communities.
Those interested in attending are encouraged to participate in all 3 sessions as they will build off of each other. Participants will receive certificates of attendance for each session they attend and will receive copies of the material presented.
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 (PRSS) 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.
Previous PRSS topics include:
Previous Supervisors of PRSS topics include:
The purpose of this training series is to provide recurring opportunities for peer recovery support specialists from across the country to build foundational skills that are necessary for effective peer support service provision. Each of the 6 topics are being offered again beginning in January in order to accommodate PRSS who are new to the field and those who would like to brush up on their basics. Additionally, these trainings may serve as an option for TA requesters looking to build their skills as PRSS.
In complement to the Communities of Practice, these training sessions will be structured in such a way as to support concrete skill development including group discussion, presentation, facilitated activities, and more. Through this training series we aim to better equip the PRSS workforce with the skills necessary for the effective, professional, and intentional provision of peer support services.
Intended Audience: This training series is for Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialists (PRSS). Participants may register for one or all six trainings in this series!
Participants will receive certificates of participation for each training they have attended. Please remember to enter your name in registration the exact way you would like it to appear on your certificate.
Did you know that poor processes account for 85% of the problems organizations have in serving customers? The NIATx Change Leader Academy helps organizations answer 5 key questions:
If you are interested in learning more about this process improvement model, register for the NIATx Change Leader Academy. Space is limited and attendance of all four sessions is required to register. Sessions are highly interactive- part of the benefit is learning from your peers.
Recovery Community Organizations, as well as any organization that employs or wants to employ Peer Recovery Support Services
This training is broken into four sessions and attendance is required for each.
For questions about the Virtual Change Leader Academy, please contact Kris Kelly at kris.kelly@wisc.edu
For questions about registration, please contact Cindy Christy at christyc@umkc.edu
Funding for this initiative was made possible by grant no. 1H79TI083022 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
