DHS - Peers as Partners - 6/5/18 Online Registration

Peers and Partners: More than a vision

Training offered by Drexel University

5 Continuing Education Credits No Cost

Description: Peers are individuals with “lived experience” of mental health or substance use disorders who are essential to behavioral health programs and services. Peer worker roles have been introduced in behavioral health services to support individuals in their recovery. A growing body of research indicates that careful consideration of organizational issues regarding peer worker roles – the distinctiveness and shared expectations of the role and organizational support – might maximize the impact. This training will examine those factors and some methods to integrate the value of peer workers into our multi-disciplinary team, i.e., how-to make the most of on the unique ability of peers to engage service recipients in their treatment through building relationships of trust based on shared lived experience.

Participants will be able to:

Discuss the origins, principles and values of the peer worker role into mental health services.
Identify the benefits of peer worker roles, from the perspectives of person’s served, peer workers and formal and informal service delivery.
Examine the barriers to and facilitators of peer workers into, or alongside, existing multi - disciplinary behavioral health teams.
Develop a “doable strategy to grow a healthy, productive and successful team, service, and support system culture.

Date: Tuesday, 6/5/18 Registration Deadline: Thursday, 5/31/18

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. ^{(one hour lunch break)}

Location: Chester County Government Services Building, 601 Westtown Road, Suite 175, West Chester, PA 19380

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