Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Training

The Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery is an authorized vendor by CalMHSA approved training for the core curriculum for the Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialists certified in California. The curriculum covers the seventeen Core Competencies that every peer support specialist is required to know to be certified as a practitioner. 

The Copeland Center's course utilizes experiential learning methods so you will be learning through practicing, sharing, reflecting. This hands-on approach is the most effective way to bring the philosophy and research of peer support into practical methods that can be used for a successful career. We are not only learning about practices and applications for future roles and relationships as certified peer specialist, we are also building and learning from the very peer relationships present in this course. 

Classes are available in different training methods and modalities. The Copeland Center offers an 80-hour course. 

Hybrid: Courses that combine onsite in-person activities with online work or instructions. These courses split time between in-person and virtual environments. Peers attend in-person courses at designated times plus engage in virtual learning activities, which may be either synchronous or asynchronous.
In-person: Courses taught onsite at scheduled course times so that students can interact with their instructor and classmates in person.
Online: Courses that include designated times for interactive experience, virtual break-out rooms, written assignments, and “virtual-live” or pre-recorded presentations by students.