DBSA Peer Specialist Training
5-Day Course
Chicago, Illinois
December 8 - 12, 2008
$950 per individual registrant
Applications are due by November 12, 2008
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Are you a consumer living in recovery who would like to share your experience and help others along the way to wellness? Don’t miss this chance to learn the skills you need to bring hope, help and support to your peers as a peer specialist.
DBSA is a national leader in training people living with mental illnesses to use their experiences to work with others as peer specialists. Our nationally-developed curriculum will orient you to a recovery philosophy and prepare you to use peer-delivered services to enhance wellness and treatment strategies. After the training, you are eligible to complete a written peer specialist examination on the principles of peer support and recovery and receive a training certificate.
Interested?
Complete and return an application no later than Wednesday, November 12, 2008. (Download the application.) All candidates will be notified of their application status by Saturday, November 15th, 2008.
Training Topics Include:
- Role of peer support in recovery
- Problem solving with individuals
- Effective listening and the art of asking questions
- Combating negative self-talk
- Dissatisfaction as an avenue for change
- Facilitating recovery dialogues
- Peer specialist ethics
…and more
Great Location!
The training will be held in downtown Chicago, IL. A block of rooms has been secured the the Chicago Hard Rock Hotel at a substantially discounted rate. Information regarding room reservations will be provided upon acceptance of application.
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Peer Specialist Continuing Education (CE) Webinar
"Trauma-Informed Care: What the Peer Specialist Needs to Know”
December 9, 2008
2:00-3:30 p.m., Central Standard Time (CST)
$75 per individual registrant
1.5 CE credits available
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DBSA’s next live Peer Specialist Continuing Education (CE) webinar, “Trauma-Informed Care: What the Peer Specialist Needs to Know.” will be on Tuesday, December 9, 2008. “Trauma-informed care” recognizes that the symptoms experienced by survivors of war and disasters, crime, sexual abuse and domestic violence are directly related to their traumatic experiences and often cause mental health and substance use concerns. Join presenter Elizabeth G. Vermilyea, MA, of Traumatic Stress Recovery Consulting, to learn about:
- The need for self-care and protection from vicarious traumatization (and strategies to that effect).
- The ways that trauma presents in individual and group interactions.
- How to assist trauma survivors in peer support settings.
- How to integrate trauma-informed strategies into the peer specialist’s wide variety of activities.
*1.5 Continuing Education (CE) credits are available to all course participants who successfully complete the post-course examination.
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