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.
This webinar is designed for current supervisors and or people looking to become supervisors. We will discuss successes and challenges within the role of a supervisor. Through mutual sharing among presenters, we will invite conversations around how peer values currently show up in this work and ways to enhance them in more intentional and tangible ways.
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss and share successes and challenges within the role of a supervisor.
2. Identify values that are important to the role of a supervisor.
3. Create action plans for how to enhance values in the workplace within supervision.
About the presenter:
Kimberly Marquez-Cortes is a Programs Manager at Peers Envisioning and Engaging in Recovery Services, PEERS. She began her work in mental health at the age of 14 attending groups and training(s) around peer support, and advocacy and is now a certified Peer Support Specialist in the state of California. She facilitates various evidence-based and best practices curriculums which have garnered opportunities to work with several peer run non-profits in the last two decades and keynote speaker at a statewide and national level. In addition, she was a part of a small youth team that co-authored WRAP® for Youth with Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD.
Bre Williams is an educator, trainer, public speaker, and poet with over 15 years of experience providing mental health and social justice services for underrepresented communities. Her passions and leadership began early as a young adult spearheading youth leadership development in Alameda County’s Behavioral Healthcare System, creating programs like PEERS’ TAY Program (currently TYA) and HHREC’s Downtown TAY, both located in Oakland, Ca. She has spoken and presented at many mental health and culturally responsive conferences and events locally and nationally, such as SAMHSA’s Peer Recovery Press Month, Alternatives, Peerpocalypse, Alameda County Behavioral Health Black History Month conferences. Bre is very passionate about educating and eliminating stigmas associated with mental health, especially in the Transition Age Youth and BIPOC communities, and is committed to supporting the growth of culturally responsive services, projects and programs nationwide.
Zakiya Johnson is a Programs Manager at Peers Envisioning and Engaging in Recovery Services, PEERS. She started as an intern and quickly found that her values aligned with PEERS and is still here almost a decade later. Excited to be a part of educating and reducing the stigma about mental health in her community and creating opportunities to engage community and belonging by giving back through the programs she is involved in. Zakiya has created initiatives like the LEVS Annual Giveback event where members share their stories and connect with community members currently experiencing homelessness. Zakiya continues to grow as an advocate in this field and continues to network with peers across Alameda County and beyond. She also enjoys spending time with her children, family, and friends. Zakiya is a Bay Area native and loves interacting with people and has a strong interest in helping others who have experienced trauma.
This is part of Doors to Wellbeing's Peer Specialist Webinar Series.
