A 5 day, 30-hour, evidence-informed, interactive online training for persons interested in providing peer-assisted recovery services.
Learning objectives
Participants will be able to:
• Describe the peer recovery specialist role and sub-roles
• Examine empowerment as a process and a tool to guide their activities with recovering populations
• Examine how paradigms about recovery can support or limit the process of coaching recovery
• Identify effective means of managing personal biases about recovery
• List the components of both the art and the science of supporting recovery
• Practice core Motivational Interviewing skills
• Compare the peer recovery specialist role with other recovery-supportive roles and professions
• Define and locate opportunities to improve a Recovery-Oriented System of Care
• Discuss social justice issues surrounding the role and services of recovery coaches
• Discuss the importance and roles of data in the peer recovery specialist role
• Discuss trauma-informed care in relation to the peer recovery specialist role
• Practice newly acquired knowledge and skills
• Identify opportunities to improve present skills relative to coaching recovery
This curriculum is designed as a process of personal transformation to understand peer assisted recovery supports. It will test personal and recovery community norms we have come to understand in the last 20 years of peer-assisted recovery supports and services.