Presented by John B. Allen Jr., Special Assistant to the Commissioner for the NYS Office of Mental Health
Click link to view: Recording of the webinar, broadcast on Feb 23, 2017 | 4 hours and 15 minutes in length
The evidence continues to show that people with lived experience not only increases the likelihood for recovery, but also reduces the time it take to recover. People with lived experience, also known as peers, are in demand now more than ever.
In NYS certified peer specialists are qualified to provide certain Medicaid services. Given that more peers will be entering the workforce, this training is designed to help agencies, supervisors, and co-workers to fully utilize the value of the people with lived experience of mental illness and the learned experience of recovery. This training will teach you about the do's and don'ts of hiring, how to handle reasonable accommodations, non-peer staff who feel threatened by peers, the importance and substance of supervision. It will also teach you how to avoid common traps such as co-opting, tokenism, marginalizing and paternalism with peer staff.