Peer Supporter/
Mentor Training
Peer Support Recovery and Employment Skills Training is ongoing at Mentor/Mentee Canada. It’s free and accessible during Covid-19 for Peers and available as built-in for organizations to begin transitioning to Peer Support service as an essential service. Peer Support is a right and a choice, and is a part of primary care teams. Peer Support training is unique for each unique Peer group. It is surprisingly successful online during Covid-19 even the precariously housed as it forms social connection, prevents isolation and creates to healthy community Peer relationships focused on personal wellness goals..
Professional Peer Support Training covers:
Being an Engagement Specialist
Active Listening/Reflection and Self Awareness
The Confidential, Ethical Relationship
Professional Sharing Skills
Connection
Deep Trauma Informed Care
Peer Wellness Tools
Healthy Communication Skills - For Peer Supporters - For Teams and External Partners - For Supervisors.
Relationship
Healthy Boundaries
Steps to Core Root issue Healing
Holistic Pathways to Wellness
Cultural Safety
Navigation for Peer Supporters
Ongoing building of Services, Trainings, and best Resources for Peers
Working in a Union environment in a large Organization
Collective and Collaborative Team Communication
Advocacy in Peer Support: Addressing stigma and oppression
Mental Health Peer Support - WRAP (the Wellness Recovery Action Plan), ASIST (Assertive Suicide Intervention Support Training), and Cognitive Behavioural Skills
Harm Reduction and Substance Use Disorder Peer Support
Housing Environments (hospital units, shelters and supportive housing, incarceration/detention, encampments) Peer Support
Outreach Peer Support
A First Nations Informed Peer Support Approach
Designing Peer Support One-on-One and Group Programs
CoDesigned/CoLed Healthy Lives/ Healthy Homes from Homelessness
Informing Problem Solving and Corrective Thinking Skills
Best Practices in Peer Support
Our Peer Support Charter
Peer Supervision Models and Peer Supervisor Training
Building the Peer Supporter Resume/Interview Skills
Peer Support Onboarding- A missed opportunity during Covid-19
Let’s start overcoming the challenges of the pandemic in 2023 and exit another winter of disconnection and isolation, frontline staff mental health burnout, overwhelmed care systems in transition, under stress and higher responsibility through Peer Support.
Peer Supporters are credentialed through their recovery in resilience, managing wellness with tools and skills to prevent crisis, skilled in accessible service navigation, and are a collaborative and ongoing learning model for progressive recovery organizations.
Peer Supporters and Mentors are changemakers in encouraging healthy behaviours toward wellness and cooperative community living through allyship, encouraging, accompanying and showing pathways that clients self determine as needed. Professional allyship breaks harmful coping in isolation, and motivates steps forward to safety, health and empowerment.
Virtual Peer Support service and Peer Support socio-educational groups are surprisingly powerful online as well as in person. Remote Peer Support with Mentor/Mentee Canada begins with accessibility with technical skill building for those who have access to phones or internet. Prioritizing client device smart phones and laptops ensure change possibility. Connection in online Peer Support groups provide the building blocks to healthy communication, healthy relationships, and a healthier client community.
Now is the time to introduce clients to Peer Support, to build Peer Support Programs into all housing and health environments, for a safer year in 2022 that equally promotes Staff wellbeing, and importantly Client wellbeing.
Preventative Peer Support
1. How can mentoring prevent homelessness?
Mentoring can prevent the fall into homelessness by increasing the support network for individuals and families struggling to remain housed. Peer Support can disrupt the ongoing ‘homelessness’ of oppression that results in trauma. Peer Support harm reduction support saves lives during Covid 19.
Struggle can be exhausting and isolating, and giving up becomes an option, but a professional Peer supports safety and increases wellness and Peer-determined problem solving when stressors are present, to avoid crisis .
Peer Supporters are experts at recovery as survivors. They have overcome challenges, resolved barriers, and have successfully made the jump from homelessness to wellness, permanent housing and professions. Peer Mentors are passionate about helping others do the same. It makes a difference to know Mentees’ can speak freely and openly with their Peer Mentor who understands their journey, and unconditionally supports and champions them.
Peer Supporters:
Lead by example of lived experience understanding, self-care, self supports, self awareness and self-responsibility.
Are trained with evidenced tools to best coach transition by sharing knowledge strategically to inspire their Peers.
Share wisdom and best pathways gained through life experience.
Encourage positive choices and provide positive connections.
Provide unconditional support in setting and achieving attainable goals.
The mutual benefits of Peer mentoring toward healthier communities
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