Enhancing Your Career as a Peer Provider

There is no question that Peer Providers enhance the lives of the individuals that they serve and others. However, challenges do exist for many as they undertake this important role. The challenges vary but often include that of transitioning in existing teams career development and balancing work/life responsibilities. This workshop is intended for individuals currently working as peer providers in mental health or co-occurring settings.

This training will address the following challenges and provide tips on how to address them. How to…

• transition from a service recipient (client) role to a Peer Provider role

• integrate into an existing team by understanding its work culture

• utilize supervision to assist with one’s career development

• Manage stress by balance work and other responsibilities

Participants will learn…

1. What is Peer Support and what distinguishes a Peer Provider from a Non Peer Provider?
2. About the challenges experienced by Peer Providers as they transition into organizations and tips to address these challenges
3. How to utilize supervision to enhance ones skills and assist with professional development.
4. How to manage stress by balancing work/life responsibilities

Intended Audience: Peer Providers

Continuing Education for: Certified Recovery Support Practitioners (CRSP)

Total hours: 6

Presented by Faith McCalla, MS

About the trainer:

Faith McCalla has over 20 years’ experience working in various capacities with many different groups, including teenage mothers, youth, and adults with emotional challenges. Her area of expertise is employment. She is the former Director of the Career Connection Employment Resource Institute at the Mental Health Association in New Jersey - a position she held for 13 years.

Faith has a MS in Psychiatric Rehabilitation from Rutgers (formerly UMDNJ) and is a Certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor for the National Counsel for Behavioral Health.