Description
November 3 & 4, 2025 | 2:00-5:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
Description:
This training will focus on developing peer support budgets. There will be an induction to basic finance practices and how organizations typically develop budgets. Topics will include building a typical peer support program budget, contracting for peer support internally and externally, grant budget development, and considering all the associated costs for peer support programming. Participants will have an opportunity to practice these skills in this training.
Objectives:
-Gain a foundational understanding of common budget elements
-Gain knowledge and skill with reading and managing budgets
-Gain practical experience in developing budgets at various scales and scopes
-Assess and set goal for increased financial literacy
-Gain skills in advocating for more access to financial information
Presenter:
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 senior leader, he grew a peer support team of 3 peer supporters to over 65, the largest in Maine. 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 on a manual for integrating peer support into multidisciplinary and clinical settings. 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 category I contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
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 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.
