Art
2023-10-02 08:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | SOS Recovery Community Organization, online
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.

Art
2023-10-02 08:30 - 15:30 | ARC NH, 180 Elm St Milford, NH 03055
The Art and Science of PAR will be offered to individuals wishing to learn about providing PRSS in the community. This training will be in person and a few scholarships will be offered to those wishing to volunteer at RCOs. The trainers will be two trained staff members of Revive Recovery Resource Center and this training is being managed by ARCNH.

Ethical Considerations in Peer-Assisted Recovery
2023-10-12 08:30 - 15:30 | online, online
Emphasis is placed on understanding the similarities and difference between values, norms, principles, morals and ethics as well as on learning how to make ethical decisions. Other areas explored include: understanding the ethical standards for the delivery of peer recovery services in a peer’s jurisdiction as well as the possibility of differing ethical standards given the location of service delivery including federally qualified health centers, jails/prisons, hospitals/emergency settings, recovery community organizations, etc. The training features presentations, exercises and experiential learning techniques.
The curriculum development was funded in part by Kennebunk Savings Bank through a grant awarded to SOS Recovery Community Organization.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Define ethics, principles and morals
Describe where to find the ethical standards already developed in their jurisdiction
Discuss a format for making ethical decisions.
Examine and discuss personal values and their connection to ethical decision-making
Examine one’s own self-care
Discuss further professional development needs

Suicide Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2023-10-12 08:30 - 15:30 | ARCH NH, 130 Elm St. Milford, Nh 03055
This training is being offered to individuals who wish to engage in PRSS in the community. A few scholarship are being offered to individuals who wish to engage volunteering in the RCOs. The trainers will be individuals who received the training of trainers and are staff members of Revive Recovery Resource Center or The Doorway of Greater Nashua.

AIDS, HIV and Hepatitis Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2023-10-13 08:30 - 15:30 | ARC NH, 130 Elm St. Milford, NH 03055
This training is being offered to anyone who wishes to learn about providing PRSS in the community. A few scholarships will be offered to those who wish to engage in volunteering in the RCOs. The trainers will be individuals who have been trained to train this material and staff members of Revive Recovery Resource Center.

Suicide Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2023-10-16 08:30 - 15:30 | online, online
A one-day training that focuses on stigma and recovery community strategies that promote community-wide responses to suicide prevention.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Recognize risk factors as well as protective factors to improve abilities to response to warning signs
Learn skills for intervening with individuals at risk and connecting them with appropriate resources
Build a peer culture of leadership, connection and empowerment that includes suicide attempt and loss survivors in leadership and planning roles.
Gain insights into suicide data and how age, gender, culture and other demographic and diversity factors impact suicide risk
Understand stigma and language as it relates to mental health and the positive impact community approaches can have to promote individuals seeking appropriate helpUnderstand the myths and facts surrounding suicide
Develop wellness plans and a continuum that include referrals to appropriate clinical supports as well as peer supports and discussions of suicide management plans in coaching and support services for individuals at risk
Engage in best practices to reduce and prevent access to lethal means
Discuss community resources available in the peer recovery setting as well as clinical resources to increase prevention strategies for suicide
The course has been approved by SOS Recovery Community Organization as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #185051. SOS Recovery Community Organization is responsible for all aspects of the program. It has been pre-approved for 6 CEU’s by the NH Board of Licensing for Alcohol and Other Drugs for suicide prevention.

AIDS, HIV and Hepatitis Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2023-10-17 08:30 - 15:30 | online, online
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Define and identify the differences between HIV and AIDS
Understand and differentiate between myths and facts about transmission of HIV and AIDS
Understand different testing methods and windows related to HIV infection and AIDS
Understand relationships between HIV, STI’s, people who inject drugs, poverty and marginalized populations.
Understand prevention strategies for HIV and hepatitis.
Define and understand hepatitis and each of the 5 types
Learn prevention strategies and treatment options for hepatitis
Gain an understanding of harm reduction strategies including syringe service programs and safe injection facilities and what they mean to reducing HIV, AIDS and hepatitis transmission
Learn about stigma and language and the impact on individuals who are infected with HIV and hepatitis

Motivational Interviewing: The Basics for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2023-10-30 08:30 - 14:30 | Community Action Partnership, 577 Central Ave., Dover, NH
Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, evidence-based, directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. After orientation to the underlying spirit, structure, and principles of Motivational Interviewing, practical exercises will help participants strengthen empathy skills, recognize and elicit patient change talk, and roll with resistance. This class will provide peer-recovery specialists and past, current or future practitioners of MI with an opportunity to explore creative ways of integrating these approaches.

Art and Science of Peer Assisted Recovery
2023-11-13 09:00 - 2023-11-17 17:00 | Archways, Via zoom
a week long class to begin the journey as a peer specialist

Ethical Considerations in PAR
2023-12-06 08:30 - 2023-12-07 16:00 | Archways ZOOM, 175 Central Street

Suicide Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2023-12-12 09:00 - 16:00 | Archways, via zoom
Suicide Prevention

AIDS, HIV and Hepatitis Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2023-12-13 09:00 - 16:00 | Archways, via zoom
HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis prevention.

The Art & Science of Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-01-22 08:00 - 2024-01-26 17:00 | Archways ZOOM, 175 Central Street

Ethical Considerations in Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-01-31 08:30 - 2024-02-01 15:30 | Archways-ZOOM, 175 Central Street Franklin, NH 03235

Art and Science of Peer Assisted Recovery
2024-02-05 09:00 - 2024-02-09 17:00 | SOS Recovery Community Organization, online
Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care; multiple pathways of recovery; harm reduction; peer recovery support; boundary management; motivational interviewing; social justice issues; self care.

Suicide Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-02-06 09:00 - 16:00 | Archways ZOOM, 175 Central Street

AIDS, HIV and Hepatitis Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-02-07 09:00 - 16:00 | Archways-ZOOM, 175 Central Street Franklin, NH 03235

Ethical Considerations in Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-02-15 08:30 - 2024-02-16 15:30 | SOS Recovery Community Organization, online
Emphasis is placed on understanding the similarities and difference between values, norms, principles, morals and ethics as well as on learning how to make ethical decisions.

Suicide Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-02-21 09:00 - 16:00 | SOS Recovery Community Organization, online

AIDS, HIV and Hepatitis Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-02-22 09:00 - 16:00 | SOS Recovery Community Organization, online

Co-Occurring Disorders
2024-02-23 08:30 - 12:00 | SOS Recovery Community Organization, online

Motivational Interviewing: The Basics for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-03-11 12:00 - 2024-03-12 15:00 | Online via Zoom, Online via Zoom
Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, evidence-based, directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence.

Motivational Interviewing: The Basics for Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-03-18 12:00 - 2024-03-19 15:00 | SOS Recovery Community Organization, online

Co-Occurring Disorders
2024-03-31 08:30 - 12:00 | Archways, via zoom

The Art & Science of Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-04-01 08:00 - 2024-04-05 17:00 | Revive Recovery, 263 Main St, Nashua, NH, 03060, United States

Suicide Prevention
2024-04-11 08:00 - 17:00 | Revive Recovery, 263 Main St, Nashua, NH, 03060, United States

HIV/AIDS/Hepatitis C Prevention
2024-04-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Revive Recovery, 263 Main St, Nashua, NH, 03060, United States

Ethical Considerations
2024-04-15 08:00 - 2024-04-16 17:00 | Revive Recovery, 263 Main St, Nashua, NH, 03060, United States

The Art & Science of Peer-Assisted Recovery
2024-04-22 08:00 - 2024-04-26 17:00 | Reality Check, 17 Turnpike Rd, Jaffrey, NH, 03452, United States

Ethical Considerations
2024-05-03 08:00 - 2024-05-04 17:00 | Reality Check, 17 Turnpike Rd, Jaffrey, NH, 03452, United States
