Training Goals and Focus Areas
#1. Organize people to create desired change in their communities
- Learning Communities
- Peer Networking Groups
- Strengths-based Community Organizing
#2. Offer introspective journeys that lead people to discover new ways to view their own abilities, their relationships with others, and the potential in the world around them
- Skill Building
- Safe, Comfortable, Welcoming Spaces
- Mentoring & Connecting Like-Minded People
- Nurturing Interest in Self Directed Recovery Tools
- Promoting Reflective Practices
#3. Create workshops, trainings, and skill-building seminars that help individuals to learn and apply best practices related to peer support
- Peer Specialist Training Curriculum
- Asset Based Community Development
- Certified “Train the Trainer” Models
- Trauma Informed Approaches
- Cultural Awareness
#4. Offer all phases of assistance to peer support groups and organizations throughout New York State
- Strategic Planning
- Community Organizing
- Innovative Partnerships & Relationship Building
- Policies, Procedures, Job Descriptions
- Program Models
- Board Training
- Stabilization & Support
#5. Introduce Peer Support Providers to Outcome and Evaluation Tools
- Practice Guidelines
- Outcome Measures
- Clearinghouse for Peer Support Research
- Evaluation Tools
- Ethics
#6. Promote growth within the peer support workforce through outreach, information sharing, presentations, and tabling related to peer specialist certification and the practice of peer support.
- Cross training of trainers
- Outside the box outreach strategies
- Keep a pulse on innovation & evolution