Our Comprehensive Training is Currently in Development!

To provide the most successful and caring support and services to our clients our organization offers a comprehensive training course in peer support encompassing:

• trauma informed care

• understanding mental health challenges in the peer support recovery model and from the perspective of peers

• suicide prevention and harm reduction

• understanding barriers of access for equitable and sustainable mental health care and actions to eliminate those barriers

• understanding mental health stigma and actions to eliminate it

• substance use

• mandated reporting and supporting those in need of additional help

• crisis intervention

• peer counseling skills

• cultural humility and intersectionality

• and a number of additional mental health and peer support topics

Our training program is designed to be completed within a minimum of 40 hours (with an emphasis in not rushing, sitting with the course content, and gaining a thorough understanding of course concepts, skills, and practices) up to a maximum of 12 weeks.

Our training program is available for anyone:

Interested in learning about peer support, the peer recovery model, and about mental health through the lens of peers who live with and experience mental health challenges. We believe that sharing this course, it's knowledge, skills, and tools we actively engage in our mission and values and contribute toward the advancement of mental health justice and equity. We want and encourage every single person to take this peer support training course as a foundation in how we treat and support ourselves and other people.

You can also share and use the information, skills, and tools learned in the training course for your own advancement of mental health justice and equity. We kindly request that you credit authorship and content appropriately and accurately.

This course is in part inspired by many sources including Crisis Support Services of Alameda County, The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, The California Warmline, Mental Health America, Mental Health First Aid, and the lived experiences of many Peers

Our initial training course when complete will be a steppingstone in peer support and mental health training. Over time we will expand the training course with additional information, tools, and resources as they become available and relevant.

How does our training program differ from other available peer support training programs and courses?

One of our goals is to provide thorough and detailed content that encompasses as much Peer Support and Mental Healthcare knowledge, skills, tools, and resources as possible. To do this we look at as many other training programs and curricula that are available; to design an effective, evidence based, and complete training course that we hope to create as a national standard. Our training course includes peer support and mental health core competencies and an array of additional mental health topics including understanding mental health challenges through the lens of peers and topics focusing on mental health justice and equity. We appreciate and respect other training programs and their respective agencies and organizations for their work and their advancement of Peer Mental Health Support.

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