Interested in receiving compassionate overdose training? Whether you’re signing up as an individual, organizing a staff training for your organization, or coordinating a group session with a club, committee, or community group, we’ve got you covered. Fill out our form with your details, and our Harm Reduction & Outreach Supervisor, Megan Merrill, will reach out to gather additional information and schedule a training that works for you.
Six classes and 68 hours of education. All for the low price of $575
*Discounted rates and scholarships are available by application reducing price to as little as $80
Art & Science of Peer-Assisted Recovery
Ethical Considerations for Peer-Assisted Recovery
Suicide Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
HIV, AIDS & Hepatitis Prevention for Peer-Assisted Recovery
Co-Occurring Disorders in Peer-Assisted Recovery Services
Motivational Interviewing: The Basics Motivational Interviewing
Co-occurring Disorders in PAR
This 5 day, 30-hour evidence informed highly interactive training is available on Zoom or in-person. Designed as a process of personal transformation to understand peer assisted recovery supports. It will test personal and recovery community norms we have come to understand in the last 20 years of assisted recovery supports and services. This is the latest and most modern and current curriculum around peer-assisted supports and recovery that will transform how we approach our peers, and more importantly, how we truly meet them where they are at and empower them in finding and maintaining recovery.
This course is designed for individuals who are working as peers in offering recovery support services. A strong emphasis will be placed on understanding the similarities and difference between values, norms, principles, morals and ethics as well as on learning how to go about making an ethical decision. Other areas to be explored will include understanding the ethical standards for delivery of peer recovery services in your jurisdiction as well as the possibility of differing ethical standards give the location of service delivery (Federally Qualified Health Centers, jails/prisons, hospitals/emergency settings, recovery community organizations, etc.). The training will rely on presentations, exercises and experiential learning techniques. The curriculum development was funded in part by Kennebunk Savings Bank.
Suicide Prevention for peer assisted recovery focuses on prevention and intervention training using key strategies from evidenced based national suicide prevention and intervention strategies. This class focuses on stigma and recovery community strategies that promote community wide responses to suicide prevention. This program is open to all peer recovery coaches and recovery support workers.
This training equips peers with a comprehensive understanding of HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis, including myths and facts about transmission, testing methods, and infection windows. Participants will explore the relationships between HIV, sexually transmitted infections, people who inject drugs, poverty, and marginalized populations, and learn effective prevention strategies for HIV and Hepatitis. The training also provides a clear overview of Hepatitis and its five types, along with prevention and treatment options. Peers will take a deeper dive into harm reduction strategies, including syringe service programs and an introduction to safe injection facilities. Finally, the training addresses stigma and the impact of language, helping participants understand how these factors affect individuals living with HIV and Hepatitis and fostering a supportive, informed approach to peer work.
This training focuses on the intersection of mental health disorders and substance use disorders, exploring how they often occur together and how treatment resources can support recovery. Participants will examine how mental health challenges may lead to increased substance use and, conversely, how substance use can worsen mental health symptoms. The training also highlights the role of medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorders, along with individual and group therapy and support groups, providing a holistic approach to harm reduction and recovery.
By the end of the training, participants will understand how mental health and substance use disorders interact and exacerbate one another, learn how these conditions are linked, and gain knowledge of available resources to support and treat co-occurring disorders. Participants will also become familiar with treatment options designed to promote optimal outcomes for those navigating both mental health and substance use challenges.
“Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.”
~ Stephen Rollnick and William R. Miller, Sheffield, UK Oct 2011
This training is an online zoom modified version of our two-day training broken up over 4 days now to allow time to practice while receiving an interactive online introduction to the evidence-based clinical method of Motivational Interviewing, an effective approach in the care of working in peer-assisted recovery supports. This class will provide recovery specialists and participants with an opportunity to explore creative ways of integrating these approaches. Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, evidence-based, directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. After orientation to the underlying spirit, structure, and principles of Motivational Interviewing, practical exercises will help participants strengthen empathy skills, recognize and elicit patient change talk, and roll with resistance.
