Peer Support Essentials: A Comprehensive Workshop for Peer Support Specialists
Date: April 15-16, 2025
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost: $280.00
Continuing Education: 5.5 credits are included with registration. Peers applying for recertification can use the credits offered by CAMFT for recertification through CalMHSA.
Format: Virtual Live Workshop
Trainers: Darla Belflower, LCSW, LSCSW, LAC, CPS
Bobbi Jo Reed, CPS
Working as a Peer Specialist can be rewarding, and for many like a dream come true. Having the opportunity to help others in recovery from behavioral health and SUD diagnosis can also be challenging for peer support specialists, given that they are working on their own recovery at the same time.
This virtual course will provide information about your role as a peer support specialist, how to partner with the consumers you work with as well as your clinical team. The workshop will create space to review and practice tools and strategies that peers can use with people seeking help while attending this workshop. Other areas of focus will include crisis intervention and helping those who may not want help. Telling your recovery story is an expectation of your job, and knowing when and how to disclose can be challenging. Self-disclosure and other ethical considerations will be reviewed.
Target Audience: Peers and peer supervisors/managers
Objectives:
- Participants will be able to list three job functions that are within a peer specialist's scope of practice.
- Participants will be able to explain at least two self-care practices to prevent burnout and at least one situation in which setting professional boundaries will help to ensure ethical care.
- Participants will be able to apply the three C's when helping a consumer work on negative self-talk.
- Participants will be able to describe at least three steps for helping a peer in crisis.
Continuing Education: 5.5 credits included with registration.
Course meets the qualifications for 5.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences; and CIBHS is an approved provider for the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) to sponsor continuing education for Behavioral health professionals including clinicians, counselors, and therapists who have a master's degree in counseling and/or related field working with children, youth, and their families. CIBHS maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
All activities in this training are offered for continuing education credit excluding any breaks. CE Certificates of Completion will be emailed within two weeks of processing your completed online evaluation.
For questions, comments, or grievances about this CE course content or delivery, or to request special accommodations, please email Theresa Ferrini at tferrini@cibhs.org
For all questions regarding the training and registration, please reach out to Robin Texeira at rtexeira@cibhs.org