Description
June 9 & 10, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
Description:
This training focuses on diving deeper into financial management. This includes how to read a budget report and understand the common terms related to budget reporting. This training will also have participants learn how to account for future spending in determining if a budget revision/amendment is needed as well as practice forecasting a budget. This training will explore how to organize a budget to advocate for new positions, particularly when a position is spread across multiple programs and changes occur due to growth.
Check out the other sessions in this series here: Session 1: Peer Support Supervision | Session 2: Team Culture in Peer Support | Session 3: Grant Writing in Peer Support | Session 4: Introduction to Peer Support Budgeting | Session 5: Advanced Peer Support Budgeting | Technical Assistance
Objectives:
• Gain practical experience in developing budgets at various scales and scopes
• Practice assessing and setting goals 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 Alcohol and Drug Counselors pending approval from the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors.
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.
