Description
December 29 & 30, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm | Virtual via Zoom
Description:
This training explores how to integrate Intentional Peer Support roles into clinical settings and covers some of the common challenges that peer supporters encounter. This training will cover some of the basics of Intentional Peer Support and other common peer support models. Focusing on integration, this training will dive into supervision structures and practices, how to organize team meetings with peer support fidelity, training, communication between roles, and multi-disciplinary team building that is mindful of “othering”, and MaineCare-approved peer support documentation. This is an interactive training that focuses on tangible strategies to integrate peer supporters into clinical settings.
Objectives:
– Provide an introduction to Intentional Peer Support and other peer support models
– Exploring key elements of supervision, team meetings, communication, team building and documentation
– Considering and discussing common challenges related to integration and strategies to navigate those challenges in alignment with peer support practices.
Audience:
Peer support professionals
Presenters:
Randy Morrison (he/him) is a person who personally understands the challenges of navigating substance use and mental health concerns. He is a Certified Intentional Peer Support (IPS) Specialist, IPS Trainer, and CCAR Recovery Coach trainer; and has a master’s in public health and a master’s in policy, planning, and management. Randy spent over seven years leading the growth and implementation of peer support programs across Maine’s largest healthcare system before becoming a full-time trainer and consultant. During his time as a peer support director, he grew a peer support team of 3 peer supporters to over 65, the largest in Maine at the time. The programs spanned substance use peer support, mental health peer support, youth peer support, and family/parent peer support. Those positions worked in a variety of settings as well, including emergency departments, primary care, behavioral health clinics, youth early intervention programs, case management programs, and four peer support centers. Randy was a co-author of a manual for integrating peer support into multidisciplinary teams as well as contributed to a manual on integrating peer support roles into “alternative courts”. Randy is passionate about peer support fidelity and creating systems that center the people utilizing them.
Contact hours:
6 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
6 contact hours for drug and alcohol counselors. This course has been approved by CCSME, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712. CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
6 Category I contact hours for Maine psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Maine Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
6 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
