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Resources and information related to the integration of peers (individuals with lived experience of behavioral health issues) into the behavioral health setting and other community settings.
Resources related to the integration of peers in behavioral health settings.
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Supervising Peer Support Specialists Link
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2/9/2022
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Supervising Peer Support Specialists in a Changing Landscape
This course provides information and resources to effectively supervise peer support specialists. The presenter of this webinar is Dana Foglesong, MSW, NCPS, national director, recovery and resiliency services, Magellan Healthcare.
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Digital Peer Support Link
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2/9/2022
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Digital Peer Support - A Whole-of-Society Approach to Widespread Availability of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
This course provides information on the current landscape of digital peer support services across the globe and how to implement digital peer support within systems of care. The presenter of this webinar is Dr. Karen L. Fortuna, assistant professor of psychiatry in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.
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Reducing Negative Attitudes Faced By Peer Staff Link
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7/14/2022
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Publication Date: March 2019
Peer support staff are individuals in recovery from a mental illness and/or substance use condition who have leveraged their lived experience to assist others in recovery. One challenge peer support staff may face on the job is a lack of acceptance and underlying stigma from their colleagues. This video and accompanying tip sheet provides guidance for how to reduce these negative attitudes and effectively integrate peer support staff into your organization.
stigma; integration; acceptance; peer support specialist
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Enhancing the Peer Provider Workforce Link
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6/12/2024
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Publication Date: September 2014
The toolkit is designed to be brief and guide community providers and state hospital administrators to integrate peer providers into their recovery-oriented services or to expand them. A wealth of material has been written on recruiting and hiring, but very little on supervision and retention. This toolkit will emphasize these two areas. The toolkit includes a list of resources.
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Integrating peer support in clinical settings Link
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6/12/2024
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Publication Date: February 2019
Mental health peer support is an evidence-based approach called for by Canada’s mental health strategy that presents health leaders with an opportunity to transform mental health service experiences, improve health outcomes, and lower overall system costs. Originally offered in community settings, peer support has been expanding to clinical settings, but challenges to integration exist.
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Peer Integration and the Stages of Change ToolKit Link
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6/12/2024
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Publication Date: May 2018
OASAS has put together a useful and comprehensive toolkit that establishes the currency of peers in the workforce. It’s “how-to” format underscores the value of lived experience in engagement and recovery activation, demonstrating how peer roles can emphasize recovery principles and values, transform organizational culture, and achieve recovery outcomes.
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Philadelphia Peer Support Toolkit Link
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6/12/2024
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Peer Support Toolkit
DBHIDS’ new toolkit is designed to support behavioral health treatment agencies with the process of integrating peer providers into their service settings. The Peer Support Toolkit incorporates many of the promising practices and resources that have emerged during the last decade of Philadelphia’s recovery-focused system transformation effort. Tools in this kit are designed to help agencies to recruit, retain, and effectively deploy people in recovery in a variety of peer support roles. The resources and information provided is relevant for executive leadership along with supervisors and peer staff.
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Integrated Peers:Opportunities & Future Direction Link
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6/12/2024
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Publication Year: 2018
Peer Workers in the Behavioral and Integrated Health Workforce: Opportunities and Future Directions
This article describes the experiences that organizations and their workforce, including peer workers, encounter as they integrate peer support services into the array of behavioral health services. Specific attention is given to the similarities and differences of services provided by peers in mental health settings and substance use settings, and implications for future directions. The article also addresses the role of peer workers in integrated behavioral and physical healthcare services.
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Peer Support Services: A Best-Practice Guide Link
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6/12/2024
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Publication Date: December 2013
Peer support services (PSS) are an expanding part of the continuum of care provided for behavioral
health conditions. These services have been deemed an evidence-based reimbursable model of care by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. States, counties, employers, and health plans are increasingly covering PSS in benefit plans. Controlled and experimental studies are building the evidence base for these services. Medicaid and the states have not developed level-of-care or medical necessity criteria for PSS, even though these criteria are standards for determining coverage and reimbursement. This review of emerging level-of-care criteria for PSS provides a framework for the further development of these resources.
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The Challenge of Peer Support Programs Link
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6/18/2024
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Publication Year: 2015
This article is about how to address challenges that arise when integrating Peer support specialists in clinical settings. Written from the point of view of a Social Worker. Challenges addressed include ethical challenges like privacy and confidentiality, boundaries and dual relationships, informed consent, competence and expertise, and continuity of service.
ethics; integration; peer support; mental health
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Peer Support in Behavioral Healthcare Link
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6/18/2024
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Publication Date: May 2016
Peer Support Services in the Behavioral Healthcare Workforce
This article examines how the history and philosophy of peer support services have shaped current mental health and substance use service delivery systems. The growth of peer-run and recovery community organizations in the changing healthcare environment are discussed, including issues related to workforce development, funding, relevant policies, and opportunities for expansion integration; peer support specialist; recovery; mental health; clinical settings
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Peer Support in Behavioral Healthcare Link
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6/18/2024
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Publication Date: May 2016
Peer Support Services in the Behavioral Healthcare Workforce
This article examines how the history and philosophy of peer support services have shaped current mental health and substance use service delivery systems. The growth of peer-run and recovery community organizations in the changing healthcare environment are discussed, including issues related to workforce development, funding, relevant policies, and opportunities for expansion integration; peer support specialist; recovery; mental health; clinical settings
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Evolvement of Peers in Psychiatric Hospitals Link
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6/18/2024
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Publication Date: December 2020
Evolvement of Peer Support Workers’ Roles in Psychiatric Hospitals
Peer support workers (PSWs) use their experiential knowledge and specific skills to support patients in their recovery process. The aim of our study was to examine the integration and role-finding process of PSWs in adult psychiatric hospitals in Germany.
Experienced involvement; Adult Psychiatry; Mental healthcare; Implementation; Qualitative empirical research
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Peers in Integrated Settings Link
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6/18/2024
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Publication Date: April 2016
Implementation of Peer Providers in Integrated Mental Health and Primary Care Settings
Peer providers are essential to the delivery of recovery-oriented mental health services, but little is known about their roles in delivering integrated mental health and primary care services. This study examines how
peer-based services are implemented in newly integrated behavioral health care settings in Los Angeles County, California.
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Integrating Mental Health Peer Support Link
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6/18/2024
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Integrating Mental Health Peer Support in Clinical Settings: Lessons from Canada and Norway
Mental health peer support is an evidence-based approach called for by Canada’s mental health strategy that presents health
leaders with an opportunity to transform mental health service experiences, improve health outcomes, and lower overall system
costs. Originally offered in community settings, peer support has been expanding to clinical settings, but challenges to integration
exist. This qualitative case study of peer support in clinical settings in Canada and Norway examines the perceived value of peer
support and change management strategies that health leaders, managers, staff, and peer support providers can use to support
integration of peer support in existing healthcare teams in clinical settings.
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Reduce Negative Attitudes towards Peer Staff Link
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6/18/2024
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Tips to Reduce Negative Attitudes Faced by Peer Support Staff
Peer support staff are individuals in recovery from a mental illness and/or substance use disorder who have leveraged their lived experience to assist others in recovery. One challenge peer support staff may face on the job is a lack of acceptance and underlying stigma from their colleagues. This document and accompanying video provides guidance for how to reduce these negative attitudes and effectively integrate peer support staff into your organization.
stigma; peer support; behavioral health; clinical setting
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Address Challenges Incorporating Peer Support Link
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6/18/2024
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Publication Date: November 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate peer support specialists’ experiences regarding training, recruiting, hiring, management, work roles, and retention in the integrated mental health and substance use disorder workplace by partnering with peer support specialist experts using the Experience-based co-design methodology. Peer support specialists identified challenges with agency restrictions, achieving work-life balance, stigma, and low compensation mental health recovery; peer support; peer support specialist; health workforce; patient experience; patient satisfaction; integration
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ADVOCATING AND PLANNING FOR A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PE Link
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6/18/2024
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Publication Date: November 2014
This guide lays the framework for employing lay persons (also known as peer supporters, peer specialists, community health workers, health coaches, or promotoras) in providing peer support to people with chronic mental and physical health conditions. It is intended for organizations that are interested in learning about or considering developing, a behavioral health peer support program to help clients with their chronic disease self-management and recovery.
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Integrated Care Issue Brief Link
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6/18/2024
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Publication Date: November 2013
Peer Models and Usage in California Behavioral Health and Primary Care Settings.
The purpose of this issue brief is to review how peers are used in agencies that provide behavioral health and/or primary care services and to describe the important role peers play in the recovery of others with mental health or substance use issues. peer support; consumer; lived experience; stigma; recovery
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Resources on the integration of peers (individuals with lived experience of behavioral health issues) into community settings.
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A Webinar on The Future of Integrated Care Link
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3/29/2022
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This webinar, The Time is NOW: Peer-Run Organizations and Integrated Care, was hosted by Cherene Caraco, peer leader, advocate, and CEO of North Carolina’s Promise Resource Network. She shared the strategy her organization has adopted in advocating for the integration of peer support in a variety of settings.
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What do we Mean by Peer Integration Presentation Link
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7/14/2022
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Original presentation date: February 28, 2017
The purpose of this VLN is to help participating organizations effectively integrate, implement, and sustain peer support using a trauma-informed approach as part of a broader effort to become a trauma-informed organization.
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Integrating Peer Support Presentation Link
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7/14/2022
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Original presentation date: January 31, 2017
-Explore SAMHSA’s principles of trauma-informed care and implementation domains;
-Share best practices and practical perspectives on peer integration through diverse guest presentations;
-Identify the opportunities and barriers to the meaningful involvement of peers throughout all levels of the organization or program;
-Help participating organizations formulate action plans for increased peer integration;
-Provide individualized technical assistance to help organizations implement their action plans and sustain changes over time.
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Social inclusion and recovery Webinar Link
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7/14/2022
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Original Presentation Date: June 10, 2020
This course provides strategies and information to advance social inclusion and recovery for people living with psychiatric disAbilities and/or addictive disorders. The presenter of this webinar is Tom Lane, CRPS, national director, community and recovery services, Magellan Healthcare.
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Integrating Peer Support into Your Organization Link
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7/14/2022
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Publication Year: 2017
Over the last 10 years, two overlapping developments in behavioral health services have seen exponential growth. First, peer support has increasingly been incorporated as an integral component of the behavioral health service delivery system to promote recovery, wellness, and resiliency. Second, more and more community behavioral health and allied service and health agencies and organizations are seeking to develop trauma-informed approaches in the way they deliver services. Concurrently, state and local systems are looking at new ways to address adverse childhood experiences, child abuse and neglect, bullying, interpersonal violence, sexual and gender-based violence, community violence, and more. This resource has links to recordings of multiple webinars covering peer integration and related topics.
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Developing peer support in the community: Link
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6/26/2024
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"This toolkit is for people interested in mental
health peer support happening in the
community. This includes people who are:
• supporting and being supported through
peer support
• setting up and running a peer support group
or project
• involved in commissioning peer support
projects.
It will be particularly useful for people who
want to establish a new peer support project."
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Lessons from Peer Support: Literature Review Link
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6/26/2024
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Publication Date: April 2012
Lessons from Peer Support Among Individuals with Mental Health Difficulties: A Review of the Literature
"We conducted a comprehensive narrative review and used a systematic search strategy to identify studies related to peer support among adults with mental health difficulties. The purposes of this review were to describe the principles, effects, and benefits of peer support documented in the published literature, to discuss challenging aspects of peer support, and to investigate lessons from peer support. Fifty-one studies, including 8 review articles and 19 qualitative studies, met the inclusion criteria for this review. Most of the challenges for peer support were related to “role” and “relationship” issues; that is, how peer support providers relate to people who receive peer support and how peer support providers are treated in the system."
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Stigma & Recovery in the Narratives of Peers Link
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6/26/2024
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Publication Date: November 2015
Stigma and recovery in the narratives of peer support workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stigma attaching to mental illness has been considered a major challenge to public policies, to the provision of care and to the well-being of people who live with the experience of mental illness worldwide. Here we discuss narratives from peer support workers which we obtained during the assessment of a new psychosocial intervention program in Rio de Janeiro. We used a range of focus groups, in-depth interviews and clinical supervision notes to derive these narratives, which covered topics such as the peer support workers’ perceptions of family and social views, their sense of self and the
experience of being stigmatized. We conclude that stigma appears to be a barrier to recovery.
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Peer support during COVID-19 Link
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6/26/2024
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Publication Date: May 2020
Peer support — A secret weapon in the fight against COVID‐19
Peer supporters are proving to be invaluable, providing connection and hope during this unprecedented time. As orders restricting movement challenged traditional service delivery practices, peer supporters kicked into high gear doing what they do: breaking isolation, engaging clients and modeling recovery.
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