Resource Library

This curriculum, developed by the Oregon Regional Facilitation Center, is designed to cover ten best practices for peers who work in the child welfare field. These practices include establishing a connection with parents; supporting positive engagement in services; supporting compliance with child welfare; promoting self-efficacy; inspiring hope and serving as reunification role model; person-centered, trauma-informed services that evoke individual needs, objectives, and goals; advocating for patents with child welfare; guiding development of supportive relationships; guiding and teaching system navigation; and regulations, ethical conduct, and peer boundaries.

Very little has been written about SUD (Substance Use Disorder) Peer Supervision Competencies. In remedy, this competency analysis is offered, using a series of investigative protocols, including: a systematic review of the literature, DACUM (Developing A Curriculum) workgroup, quantitative peer and supervisor validation survey, and a managerial and administrative validation review. This competency analysis is specifically designed for training purposes. Competencies with specific KSA’s (Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes) are described in checkboxes for classroom participant self- assessment.

This library provides an opportunity for staff to efficiently review multiple validated screening tools and identify those that are most appropriate for their settings. Each tool fact sheet includes information including substance(s) covered, audiences, mode of delivery, and evidence base to help HIV service delivery settings integrate substance use screening into their practice.

This library supports professionals in talking to clients about substance use in a respectful, non-judgmental, and validated manner. In doing so, it contributes to the main goal of the Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) project: to ensure that people with HIV and OUD have access to care, treatment, and recovery services that are client-centered and culturally responsive.

Whether you are new to peer support, or you have been working with peer support workers for some time, this toolkit is designed to address an often-forgotten aspect of peer work: effective supervision. This toolkit is aimed at helping people who are supervising and implementing peer roles to better understand peer support and its unique value proposition for mental health and addiction agencies so that they can support peer workers in unlocking the potential of this nascent profession in our communities.

Peer recovery support services (PRSS) have emerged as important resources for engaging and supporting individuals and families in their recovery. Contemporary PRSS are non-clinical, strength-based, and recovery-focused. They target recovery outcomes such as improved health and wellness, an increased sense of self-efficacy or empowerment, and increased success and satisfaction in a range of community settings such as work, home, and school, instead of merely focusing on symptom reduction.

This document builds on prior SAMHSA peer workforce efforts and covers the following:

1. Considering the Current Context of PRSS provides a snapshot of the field of peer recovery support at the time of the report, for those who may be unfamiliar. It also summarized observations from peer practitioners about contemporary experiences with supervision.

2. Framing Supervision considers some of the key question related to supervision of addiction peer supports, and presents a working framework for supervision.

3. Practicing the Principles looks at how the principles may be applied in a variety of PRSS settings.

Peer support services have expanded to a wide variety of behavioral health environments and within a range of program models. Because peer support services represent a relatively new service within behavioral health services, there may be too few supervisors who understand the peer role well enough to supervise peer workers. Primarily for practitioners who are supervising peer workers, this group of resources helps supervisors understand how to supervise peer workers in behavioral health services.

This webinar is from the Northeast & Caribbean ATTC. As peer advocates enter the work force in substance use treatment, many supervisors are not prepared with the knowledge and skills necessary to supervise their peers effectively and efficiently. This course will review many topics around supervision: what it is, how it is different for peers, and the challenges to supervising peers. Ways of supervision that have worked for people will also be discussed.

This Supervisor of Peer Workers Self-Assessment is designed to help you refect on your own supervision practice and identify areas you would like to develop to become a more efective supervisor of peer workers. For areas that are learning needs, speak to your supervisor about strategies for learning the needed competencies.

This slide deck highlights two articles and a blog about recovery benchmarks and differences in recovery regarding quality of life issues for individuals depending on drug of choice; gender; and race/ethnicity. Understanding the benchmarks of recovery and the differences in individuals’ recovery experiences can help both peer support specialists and behavioral health professionals’ normalize recovery experiences.

The slide deck is designed to be used by behavioral health academic faculty, trainers, and state agency staff members for a variety of audiences. Each slide has notes for the presenter to provide guidance if necessary. References are included on the slides and in the notes. If you require further information on this topic, please contact the Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MPATTC). You are free to use these slides and pictures but please give credit to the MPATTC when using them by keeping the branding and referencing the ATTC at the beginning of your presentation.

A list of different services and/or resources for peers when seeking information regarding person-centered care.

Learn how addiction and infectious disease interact: Dr. Ryan Westergaard presents clinical issues related to the management of patients with infectious diseases and addiction, including important drug interactions, adherence support, and care coordination strategies.

Read the transcript:

Transcript_Syndemics Part 2- What Infectious Disease Providers Need to Know About Addiction Treatment.pdf

At the beginning of the Public Health Emergency (PHE) Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery support providers had to shift service delivery from a mostly in-person structure to virtual. This swift uptake in the use of telebehavioral-health may be transformative not only for the healthcare system but for the behavioral health field as well. This webinar series will highlight online group counseling services and will demonstrate its viability as an alternative to traditional in-person groups requiring new facilitative, alliance building, and administrative skills for both counselors and peers.