APS Virtual Learning Community News Digest
Greetings APS Participants and Friends!
There are just two weeks left to the close of Term 1 (Friday, March 30, 2018). We wish all of you success in completing your courses for this term. The next term will open May 2, 2018.
The attached APS VLC News Digest is a summary of job openings, events, research opportunities, articles of interest and announcements for the peer workforce in New York State. The News Digest is published every 2-3 weeks through the APS Virtual Learning Community project. We encourage you to contribute announcements from your region.
Highlighted in this issue of the VLC News Digest:
Upcoming APS Events – one for peer specialists and the other for supervisors.
- Ask the Supervisors! Thurs., March 22 from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. | Register
- Ask the RAS’s! Wednesday March 28 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Register
Initial reports from workshops at the Peer Specialist Certification Board Conference:
- Leadership Attributes for Communities of Practice | View Report
- Supervision Attributes for Supervisors of Peer Specialists | View Report
Two listservs are now available for peer specialists and supervisors:
- Virtual Learning Community (open to all roles) | Join
- Supervisor’s Network (by invitation)
This issue includes a blog by Denise Ranaghan, Director of Peer Services at NYAPRS, that was featured in Psychology Today. Also included is the latest installment of the slice of life as a peer specialist, which Howard Diamond has been writing monthly for several years.
Be sure to browse through the round up of events, research, resources, job openings, and share with anyone you know who may be looking for extra help our request to organizations with direct support volunteer peer positions to email us with a description. That way, we can inform those with a provisional certification about opportunities that may qualify toward their required supervised work hours.
Finally, the APS Sense of Community survey measures regions and roles where the sense of community is the strongest. We hope to build on knowledge we gather to continue to strength and grow our peer support workforce. The survey ends March 30 | Take it Now
The Virtual Learning Community website contains this issue of News Digest and more! You can find this issue and back issues of News Digest on the Virtual Community site.
Warm wishes,
Rita Cronise, Virtual Learning Community (VLC) Coordinator
academy.virtual.community@gmail.com