FREE Webinar - Returning to Our Roots: What is the Purpose of Peer Support?
Doors to Wellbeing invites you to join our monthly Peer Specialist Webinar Series. This FREE continuing education opportunity brings experts by experience to expand peer specialist skills, knowledge and best practices. The series is the last Tuesday of every month (except December) at 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT.
Returning to Our Roots: What is the Purpose of Peer Support? presented by Tim Saubers, Executive Director, for National Association of Peer Supporters (NAPS)
Peer support has grown exponentially over the past 20 years and has become systematized as a service that is provided as part of the continuum of care within behavioral health services. Many peer supporters understand their role as bringing people into recovery, building recovery capital, and coaching people through navigating systems. But is that the true purpose of peer support, or is it something more? Join us for a conversation about what it means to stay true to the values of peer support amongst so many different systemic interpretations.
Learning Objectives:
1. Name 3 misconceptions about the purpose of peer support
2. Name 3 ways to remain true to the values of peer support
3. Identify peer-oriented resources that support providing peer support to fidelity
About the presenters:
Tim Saubers is the Executive Director of the National Association of Peer Supporters, the leading national organization dedicated to advancing the growth and development of peer work. He has worked in peer support for almost 10 years in roles ranging from direct service to peer certification management to national training and technical assistance on workforce development. He is deeply committed to maintaining fidelity to peer support as an alternative to existing behavioral healthcare systems and a community building tool rooted in social justice. Tim is currently based in Milwaukee and enjoys paleontology, volunteering, and baking in his free time.
This is part of Doors to Wellbeing's Peer Specialist Webinar Series
