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Zoom Link for Every Session: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9421288143 Meeting ID: 942 128 8143

If you have any questions, contact Thomas Kinley

tkinley@heartlandalliance.org

Recovery coaching as a peer-to-peer recovery support services has grown exponentially over the past few years. Ethical considerations have been discussed in many circles, yet formal training has been lacking for recovery coaches. This training addresses this critical need. Based on the widely used Ethical Guidelines for the Delivery of Peer-based Recovery Support Services by William White and PRO-ACT (2007), we designed this training to help coaches, and anyone else working in the peer role, to understand how critical it is to be ethically responsible. Using presentations, small group work, and role play to address many areas including defining the coaching service role and functions, coaching standards, issues of vulnerability, ethical decision-making, performance enhancement, and legal issues.

PARTICIPANTS WHO COMPLETE THIS TRAINING WILL:

• Understand what ethics are and why ethics are so important when performing Recovery Coach Services

• Learn how to stay in your lane as a recovery coach

• Understand the decision-making process

• Develop guidelines for making ethical decisions

• Apply the new learning to your everyday work as a Recovery Coach

If you have any questions, please contact Maddie Seigfried by email at madison.mccormick@prevention.org or by phone at 217.993.2889.

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Free training!

Faces & Voices of Recovery invites the recovery community to a FREE virtual training sponsored by the Opioid Response Network.

Science of Addiction & Recovery (SOAR) is a curriculum developed in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This training provides individuals with a better understanding of the science behind addiction and recovery. While experience changes beliefs, the facts about how substances dramatically affect the brain are a key component in helping the public understand the recovery process.

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Presented by Natanael (Nata) Choi and Miriam Gutierrez

This workshop will review the unique health disparities that the Latinx community faces while presenting Latino Behavioral's peer support model as an effective tool for supporting the community's mental health and substance use needs. At the end of this workshop, participants will understand how Latino Behavioral's peer support model is utilized to provide culturally and linguistically responsive mental health and substance use services to the Latinx community.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe 3-5 health disparities faced by the Latinx community;

• Identify 3-4 ways to peer support can be cultural responsive for the Latinx community;

• Describe 2-3 aspects of a successful systematic approach to effective peer support for the Latinx community;

• List at least 4 tools for supporting effect peer support services.

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Presented by Jay Hughes, this training will cover an introduction on trauma, practical community-based interventions that can be utilized in non-clinical settings, and guidance on creating safe and supportive environments.

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David Awadalla with SAMHSA’s Office of Recovery leads or supports numerous projects across SAMHSA, including the development of the National Model Standards for Peer Support Certification. David oversees several recovery-related initiatives, including the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence, O-R diversion court and collegiate recovery initiatives.

Kirk Lane is the Director of the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership and author of the Overdose Response teams which pairs a peer support work alongside of a law enforcement officer. (It’s cops and robbers with a happy ending)

Jimmy McGill overcame a life of incarceration as the Executive Director National Peer Recovery Alliance. Jimmy has influenced drug and reentry policies. Honored with the "Jimmy McGill Peer Leadership Award" in 2019, the 2021 TrailBlazer award from the Department of Human Services, and the 2023 Arkansas Peer Legacy Award.

Josh Ramsey is a Peer worker with Izard County Sheriff’s Department and the 16th Judicial Drug Task Force. He received the 2021 Rising Star and 2022 Forensic Peer of the Year Awards. Josh works side by side with investigators, leveraging his lived experience to support those who have overdosed and their families.

Questions can go to  Jimmy McGill <jimmy@nextsteprecoveryhousing.org>

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Presented by Jay Hughes, this training will cover understanding the impact of ACEs, the correlation between ACEs and substance use, how to identify risk factors, and building resilience.

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Join this 1-hour webinar where we delve into the intricate web of support and resources surrounding recovery. Explore the interconnected network that forms the recovery ecosystem, understanding how diverse elements contribute to and shape the journey towards sustained well-being.

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Join us for the fourth training opportunity in the 2024 RCORP Training Series! This 90 minute virtual training is free and open to everyone.

A talk and conversation about the importance of recovery storytelling, and how stories from people with lived experience can transform the way communities, especially rural communities, perceive and respond to substance use. Art and literature have an ability beyond clinical treatment to support people and families affected by substance use disorders, as well as the ability to shape more supportive recovery environments. Chris will discuss important examples of writing about drugs and recovery, such as the history of naloxone, and read his prize-winning essay, "We Were Hungry," about harm reduction, homelessness, and meth use in southern Illinois.

Chris Dennis is an overdose prevention educator and Recovery Services Program Manager at Egyptian Health Department. He is the author of the story collection Here Is What You Do. His stories and essays about recovery have appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Playgirl, Astra, Lit Hub, Guernica and Best American Essays 2023. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, the Krause Essay Prize, and a New York Times Sidney Award for long-form journalism. A graduate and fellow of the Writing program at Washington University in St. Louis, he currently lives in southern Illinois.

SIU School of Medicine, Center for Rural Health and Social Service Development will provide 1.5 hours of CEUs for LSW, LCSW, LPC, LCPC.

Participants will receive a Zoom link for this training session approximately one week before the training date.

For questions, please contact mragan@stressandtrauma.org

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This webinar will focus on enhancing participants’ ability to improve an individual’s motivation and engagement in treatment. Participants will learn ways to empower their clients to change by drawing out  meaning, importance, and capacity for change. The hope is that through these methods, participants will gain tools and knowledge to help motivate their clients to improve their health and wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential. Offered in collaboration with Lewis Family Consulting.

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Community Connections is a free webinar for peers that explores a different topic each month. It includes a presentation and time for participants to connect in breakout rooms, deepening their understanding of the topic with an opportunity to get to know one another. The webinars take place on the second Wednesday of each month at 10:00am – 11:30am CT.

Our topic is for stress awareness month is “Little By Little, A Little Becomes A Lot.” We’ll be exploring how small actions can support big changes. 1.5 CEUs for MHPS, RSPS, RPS, CFP and PSS.

Prerequisites: None
Eligibility: All peers
Cost: Free
CEUs: 1.5

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Illinois Co-Occurring Center for Excellence (ICOCE), in Partnership with Prevention First and Heartland Alliance Health Midwest Harm Reduction Institute

No Registration is required; use the Zoom link below:

Zoom Link for Every Session: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9421288143 Meeting ID: 942 128 8143

If you have any questions, contact Thomas Kinley

tkinley@heartlandalliance.org

Supporting adolescents in a Recovery High School setting involves addressing their unique needs related to substance use recovery while also providing a supportive educational environment. In this presentation, we discuss the creation and evolution of recovery support services for adolescents within an academic setting, most notably the importance of a strong culture of peer-to-peer supports. We will explore the evidence-based research behind the peer-to-peer support model in adolescent recovery settings. Through shared experiences from the field providing peer recovery support services, presenters will share their experience building strong peer-to-peer recovery support within a school and the formulation of a “true” peer to peer recovery support that provides training to current students and gives them the opportunity to serve their high school peers while also helping to build a future workforce in the field of peer recovery.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will gain an understanding for the need of Recovery High Schools. They will also gain an understanding of different approaches to peer recovery support and what that may look like in different Recovery High Schools. 
  

• Participants will gain an understanding of how research supports the need for peer support in a recovery high school.
  

• Participants will be able to identify strategies to formulate a “true” peer to peer recovery support and student leadership training program.

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Join Laysha Ostrow, PhD as she discusses some of the results from the Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) Career Outcomes Study, a 3-year effort to document the career outcomes of CPS. Dr. Ostrow will present some of the findings around wages and financial wellbeing, workplace burnout, and entrepreneurship. The presentation will conclude with lessons learned and suggestions for future research and policy changes to support the peer workforce.

Learning Objectives:

• List 5 different peer support job settings that are the most common places that peer supporters work. 

• State the 3-4 of most important reasons for working in peer support as reported by peer support workers. 

• Describe 3 predictors of burnout as a peer supporter.

• Identify opportunities for entrepreneurship that peer supporters are uniquely qualified for.

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This Summit is intended for supervisors, non-peer co-workers, and leaders in the behavioral health peer workforce across New York state. You will gain wisdom from accomplished leaders and innovators in supervision grounded in practical wisdom and mutual peer support values. Be prepared to have frank supervisor-to-supervisor discussions on improving the practice of supervision of the peer support workforce.

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Immerse yourself in this 1-hour webinar where we dissect challenges and provide actionable strategies for overcoming obstacles in policy implementation. Explore effective solutions to navigate complexities and drive positive change in your organizational policies.

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Embracing Different Recovery Roads:  "Exploring Our Whole Health”

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This Summit is intended for supervisors, non-peer co-workers, and leaders in the behavioral health peer workforce across New York state. You will gain wisdom from accomplished leaders and innovators in supervision grounded in practical wisdom and mutual peer support values. Be prepared to have frank supervisor-to-supervisor discussions on improving the practice of supervision of the peer support workforce.

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Explore strategies and insights on creating environments that support recovery from substance use and/or mental health challenges, promoting resilience and productivity. Gain valuable knowledge on building a workplace culture that prioritizes employee wellness and champions recovery.

Register here: https://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/event/il-only-recovery-friendly-workplaces-recovery-ready-webinar-series/

The Illinois Co-occurring Center for Excellence (ICOCE)

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De-escalating a mental health crisis is a very difficult skill set and starts with the worker calming themselves and maintaining their composure as they move toward the situation. Fear elicits a threat response in both the upset person and the one trying to help. This means that without specific strategies it is common for the worker to inadvertently worsen the situation as they react to the “noise” of the situation.

Talking to upset and dysregulated people and keeping the situation calm is a more important skill set than ever before. There is a high level of anxiety in the current culture so when people are stressed by such things as having to wait, feeling disrespected, or being told things that they don’t want to hear, the likelihood of escalation is high. To keep spaces safe for everyone, effective workers need a toolkit of de-escalation responses that help the upset person self-regulate and move toward problem solving. In workplaces that value equity and inclusion, staff use a trauma-informed, non-punitive approach to managing conflict.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Examine strategies to ground and reorient oneself in a stressful situation

• Identify the person’s need and specific concern

• Describe a de-escalation model for crisis situations

• Practice verbal strategies for building cooperation and seeking compliance

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Managing the boundary between personal feelings and professional requirements can be a complex and confusing challenge. Leaders are tasked with managing their own boundaries with supervisees, as well as modeling and coaching supervisees on maintaining appropriate and effective boundaries with others. This class provides a framework for addressing complex ethical dilemmas that often arise in supervisory situations and will assist supervisors in using a grounded approach to addressing conflicts of interest and boundary issues in the workplace.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Review boundary concepts and terminology from a leadership perspective

• Examine biases and reactions when faced with challenging ethical issues

• Practice using a decision-making framework with strategies for challenging conversations

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As peer support continues to grow, people with lived experience are being employed in organizations and systems throughout the country to inspire others on their journey of healing, wellness, and recovery. While this means progress in the growth of the lived experience workforce and appreciation for its value, when it comes to career development, professional peer support specialists can feel limited to finite possibilities, such as acquiring licensure, providing peer support, pursuing formal education, and working as a clinician, trainer, or educator.

While these options may be personally meaningful and do have an impact, they are not the only roles in which the wisdom of lived experience is valuable and urgently needed. For meaningful change to happen, peer leaders must find leadership roles that allow them to bring what they know about recovery to a system-wide scale.

Join a conversation with several peers that have served in governmental agencies, the health insurance industry, and as nonprofit organizational leaders as they share their perspective on what it takes to bring recovery to scale by changing the culture and perspectives of major system players.

> How can the lived experience of key people inform program and policy at the institutional level? 

> What obstacles and opportunities have lived experience change makers encountered in trying to bring recovery and peer support to the mental health system of care? 

> What roles can people with lived experience play within systems to help reorient them toward recovery?

Find out what making change at the system level looks like, hear about the paths others have taken to get there, and imagine the leadership path you can take to bring change to your community!

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gNLsZTptT02IKjYUvIbu1g#/registration

Dive into the core of recovery with our 1-hour webinar as we explore the breadth and depth of internal and external resources crucial for initiating and sustaining recovery. Gain insights and strategies to enhance your recovery capital, equipping you and your community with the tools needed for a resilient and sustainable journey toward recovery.

Register here: https://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/event/il-only-building-recovery-capital-recovery-ready-webinar-series/?utm_source=Faces+%26+Voices+of+Recovery&utm_campaign=e4449cc28e-final-trainings-july-frp_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3410cda480-e4449cc28e-386491657

Presented by the IFRC’s coordinator, Nancy Phillips. This webinar will be on “Building Healthy Parenting for Recovery”. This webinar explores many of the issues children and their caregivers experience as they navigate life in the recovery environment. Hosted by Illinois Family Resource Center/Hour House.

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Connecting peers, recovery support services, and state agencies is crucial to fostering long-term recovery in our communities. Join us as we explore the use of peers in non-traditional settings and tools to help state agencies and other funders use funds more strategically to build recovery-rich communities.

By attending this webinar, the attendees will be able to:

• Describe a new framework of thinking about organizations and service delivery through the lens of recovery.

• Learn how State administrators can use the Recovery Consciousness and Integration Continuum (RCIC) framework as a tool to balance their recovery services portfolios.

• Examine what resources might be necessary to create a robust recovery-oriented system of care.

Register here: https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrd-uurjMjGdSrMMWDoZmK18SiFozV60ft#/registration

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors can be experienced by anyone but are more likely by people with mental health concerns. People who work with or care for vulnerable populations will likely encounter individuals talking about suicide and suicidal ideation, and it is important to project calm and poise at these times.

This class provides person-centered strategies to engage with people from diverse backgrounds to discuss suicide. Being able to engage with various populations about this topic allows for a more inclusive and equitable environment for accurate assessment. Talking about suicide with another person can be so difficult that most people default to avoiding the subject. Normalizing the topic and being able to use respectful language when engaging with someone expressing thoughts of suicide is necessary for providing comprehensive support services in our communities. This class aims to improve comfort and skill levels with this difficult and emotional topic by exploring and practicing assessment protocols and conversation dynamics.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Identify common signs of suicidal thoughts in adults, adolescents, and children

• Approach a conversation about suicide in a calm, focused manner

• Introduce the 4-point protocol questions

• Explain how suicide risk assessment tools work and when mental health professionals use them

Register here: https://mhttcnetwork.org/centers/great-lakes-mhttc/event/suicide-risk-assessment-2

Participants will learn how the language that is commonly used in treatment and recovery has negatively shaped public perception and alternative terminology that the field could employ. This workshop offers strategies that can be used within their programs and in the community to encourage a more person-centered mindset about addiction and recovery.

Objectives:

• Explain how the language that is commonly used in treatment and recovery has negatively shaped public perception.

• Identify the terminology that has contributed most to worsening stigma, and alternative terminology that the field could employ.

• Cite specific strategies that can be used within their programs and in the community to encourage a more person-centered mindset about addiction and recovery.

Register Here: https://www.prevention.org/training/eventsub?e=2827&c=1044 This learning series consists of three one-hour online facilitated sessions.

One of the core principles of harm reduction is to ensure that people who use drugs and those with a history of drug use routinely have a real voice in the creation of programs and policies designed to serve them. This session will explore the reasons for this and practical ways to bring that principle to life by exploring how to develop and maintain workforce opportunities for people who use drugs.

Register here: https://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/event/virtual-learning-community-meaningful-involvement-with-people-who-use-drugs/

The Institute of Medicine describes person-centered care as the qualities of compassion, respect and responsiveness to the needs, values, and expressed desires of each individual patient. But how do we ensure that we as providers are working from ‘where the client is at’ instead of from our own agenda?   

Effective engagement strategies grounded in eliciting information, positive regard and empathetic understanding will be discussed. Further, the content will inform and highlight Cultural Humility key components as a means to person-centered care to enhance the opportunities that build trust and rapport. When people who seek services are heard and included in their treatment care, they are more likely to commit to their own recovery and wellness process.  

Trainer: Diana Padilla, MCPC, CARC, CASAC-T

Credits: This training meets the requirements for three renewal hours (CASAC, CPP, CPS) and three initial hours (CPP, CPS) through New York State’s Office of Addiction Services and Supports (NYS OASAS). As an IC & RC member board, OASAS accredited courses are granted reciprocal approval by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Alcohol and Drug Counselor Committee. Many other states offer reciprocity - please check with your accrediting agency.
 

Participants are required to attend the training in its entirety, turn on their video cameras, and actively participate to receive credit.

Register here: https://attcnetwork.org/centers/northeast-caribbean-attc/event/using-cultural-humility-promote-person-centered-care-22624