Description
If you see the “Register Here” button above, there are spaces available and you can register for this course. Otherwise this course is full, and you can contact Casey at csea@ccsme.org to be added to the waitlist.
March 10 & 11, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
Description:
Peer Support Supervision is critical to effective peer support programming. This training will focus on exploring the qualities of a strong supervisor within peer support programs and considers the elements that foster an effective supervisory relationship. The training provides handouts and guides to support participants in establishing a thoughtful hiring and onboarding process as well as outlining important elements of the first meetings with a new supervisee. This training explores how to reset a supervisory relationship that has gotten off track and considers approaches to address hard conversations (e.g., performance) in supervisory relationships.
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:
• Have a foundational understanding of the role of a supervisor
• Explore the importance of effective onboarding
• Gain knowledge and skills in managing your own emotions during challenging supervision conversations and in understanding the role “power” plays in these conversations
• Gain knowledge and skills on how to reset a supervisory relationship
• Practice performance-related conversations
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.
