Fundamental Process
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Connecting is task number one in every meeting. Establish the peer relationship. Maintain a good working relationship. Explore how the peer experiences life currently, current and past efforts in recovery, areas of strength and resilience, concerns and challenges, and hopes and dreams for the future. Powerful support is provided peer-to-peer to address a range of potential concerns. Support is provided based on the foundation of connection and exploration. There are professional boundaries and ethics that guide the practice of peer support. Planning is based on the peer’s desires, hopes, goals, and needs in recovery. Planning unfolds and evolves over time for ongoing peer support. Advocating is done with peers for change in workplace and change in service systems. Advocacy honors the value of certified peer specialists, the wishes of peers, and centers the supports needed for harm reduction.
• Self-awareness • Benefits of the peer Relationship • Strengths-based recovery principles • Trauma-informed care • Confidentiality • Exploring lived experience • Substance use challenges and mental health • Resilience and protective factors • Ambivalence • Multiple pathways to recovery • Supporting lived experience • Multiple pathways to recovery • Difficult conversations (examples: suicide, self- harm, responding to anger) • Setting healthy boundaries • Stigma, culture, power, privilege • Multiple pathways to recovery • Planning pitfalls and possibilities • Natural supports • Advocate with peer • Advocate for professional needs in workplace • Advocate for certified peer specialist role and supports • Advocate for systemic change • Advocate for intentionality in integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion in all spaces
• Practicing self-care and community care • Connecting open questions • Look for strengths and affirm • Reflective Listening Cheat Sheet • Initial Meeting Checklist • OARS skills • Exploring open questions • Look for strengths and affirm • Advantages and Disadvantages Worksheet • Exploring values • Listening, revisited • OARS skills • Providing information (Ask- Share-Ask) • Sharing recovery story (Ask- Share-Ask) • Preparing Response to Anger Worksheet • Gentle refusal 3 steps • Advocacy • Sharing information and resources (Ask-Share-Ask) • Best practices for concluding the relationship • OARS skills • Connect with resources and others with shared values • Applying understandings of culture, power, and privilege • Exploring values • Brainstorming • Collaboration and fostering connections through organizing advocacy efforts • OARS skills • Planning possibilities • Brainstorming
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Exploring
Supporting
Planning
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