[NYAPRS Enews] Wednesday! Jan 12 webinar "Core Competencies for Peer Crisis Support: Values, Practices and Skills; Still Time to Register

[Harvey Rosenthal]

NYAPRS Note: Join NYAPRS and the College for Behavioral Health Leadership in welcoming back Eduardo Vega, internationally known for his work in peer crisis support, for "Core Competencies for Peer Crisis Support: Values, Practices and Skills" to be held NEXT WEEK on January 12th at 1pm EST.
In advance, we'd like to encourage you to review his December 15th presentation, "Intensity, Lived Experience and Crisis: Activating Peer Support for a Transformed Mental Health Crisis Response System" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boYWmxl4XcUwill.
Eduardo will be sharing details about the "Growing Through" model of advanced peer crisis support training and will engage in a discussion with our attendees  about the integration of this model from the lens of public mental health and suicide prevention fields. Register here<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eriPKAMRQmKrXGGZedGt6A> today!

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Core Competencies for Peer Support: Values, Practices and Skills






January 2022

Webinar





Core Competencies for Peer Crisis Support: Values, Practices and Skills



Register Here<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eriPKAMRQmKrXGGZedGt6A>









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Lived experience of crisis and peer support van be incredibly valuable when people are experiencing "crisis-level" emotions such as suicidal intensity. Dispensing with stigmatizing and dehumanizing language related to these experiences is a crucial first step, altering clinical and law enforcement practices that feel more like punishment than care is also crucial. Peer specialists and peer empowerment values need to be effectively integrated as supports in intense situations as well. But structural resistance, risk aversion and stigma have prevented anything like widespread involvement of people with lived experience in crisis or suicide prevention programming.



The key to successful integration of peer crisis support is a set of core practices and skills that provide people with lived experience with distinctive competencies for supporting peers in these moments and settings, and the opportunity and confidence to employ them.



In this session, we will present a comprehensive approach to bridging peer support values and practices to support in crisis services and settings, including core skills for encountering threat of violence and suicidal intensity. The presenter will outline the details of one model of advance 'peer crisis support' training and provide discussion on the integration of these practices from the point of view of both public mental health and suicide prevention fields.



Date and Time: January 12, 2022, 1:00-2:15pm EST



Presented By: Eduardo Vega, M. Psy, CEO and Founder, Humannovations



      Register Here<https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eriPKAMRQmKrXGGZedGt6A>

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