Recovery to Practice - Next Steps

Recovery to Practice Next Steps training brings together peer support providers from a variety of places (geography, philosophy, training, lived experiences, educational backgrounds, and perspectives) to share the richness of their lived experiences as peer providers, learn with and from each other, and come to a common understanding of how to support people in recovery through some of the current best practices in peer support.

The dynamic collaborative teaching style is a natural fit for those already trained as Facilitators. Come learn how becoming a Next Steps facilitator can be a next step in your career as a Facilitator.

Learning Objectives:
(1) Describe the Recovery to Practice (RTP) project and goal of the Next Steps training.
(2) Discuss the difference between collaborative learning and traditional training.
(3) Experience a collaborative element of the Next Steps training and describe how it relates to peer support.

Rita Cronise is an Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator and an instructional design consultant living in upstate New York. She is a distance learning adjunct faculty member at Rutgers University and coordinator for the International Association of Peer Supporters (iNAPS), where she has worked with Executive Director Steve Harrington and many peer contributors on the development of the Recovery to Practice Next Steps curriculum.

Colleen Sheehan is a member of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS) Training Collective with lived experience in the mental health system and over 15 years of using that experience to promote systems change. She facilitates recovery and the perspective of someone with lived experience in mental health agencies, with peer specialists, in academia, and in hospitals including some involved in the SAMHSA "Positive Alternatives to Restraint and Seclusion" grant. She is a Copeland Center-trained WRAP Facilitator and also has years of volunteer experience facilitating the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and related collaborative learning circles in prisons and in the community.