Peer Leadership & Supervision Training (PLST)

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This Peer Leadership and Supervision Training is a dedicated program designed to provide individuals with essential skills and knowledge to effectively support peers. This training was developed in line with national standards and assumes that participants have a working knowledge of peer work. It was designed by peer supervisors with personal lived experience for current or aspiring peer supervisors with personal lived experience. However, individuals who supervise peers but do not identify as having personal lived experience should be able to gain new knowledge and skills as well.  

One recent participant shared, “There is very valuable information in this training and should be given to peer supervisors within 4 weeks of taking the role. I also feel that those that are in supervisor roles already and have not taken this training should.”

Please be sure to read our cancellation and transfer policy here.

What You Will Learn:

Supervision models and techniques: 

·  Examine the importance of peer supervision

·  Analyze the role of the supervisor in each of the core values of peer support·  Implement reflective feedback techniques. 

·  Evaluate the needs of peer support professionals in a variety of settings and understand how to support peers in both group and individual settings 

Documentation and reporting: 

·  Understand recovery capital and person-centered recovery planning

·  Understand and implement important components of supervision documentation 

Ethical Guidelines and Boundaries: 

·  Understand and apply ethical boundaries to their supervisory work

·  Evaluate ethical scenarios and provide supervisees with guidance to navigate these scenarios

Advocacy for peers and peer culture: 

·  Develop a peer culture as a peer lead 

·  Understand how to integrate peers into multidisciplinary teams

Self-care and Wellness:

·  Understand the importance of developing and modeling self-care and wellness for themselves and their teams

·  Analyze their organization’s policies for support of wellness

Upon completion of the training, participants will receive access to digital course resources/materials and post-training collaborative forums. The collaborative forums are an opportunity to network, problem-solve, and share successes with a community of peers. (Note the collaborative forums are optional but highly recommended.)