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Communities of Practice

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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:

  • 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

Previous Supervisors of PRSS topics include:

  • 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











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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.

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