The Centre for Innovation in Peer Support (embedded in Support & Housing-Halton) requested this Evidence Brief from EENet as a means to vision forward with system transformation as a result of Peer Support Staff roles and the systems infrastructure that the Centre provides. EENet has been such a valuable resource for us as we have been described as "the little engines that could".
Here is a link to the Promising Practice feature that EENet created for the Centre that will provide context as to why EENet has been such an "integral piece of our puzzle" and success, and growing provincial/national/international footprint. The "small but mighty" Centre team continues to lead transitional change for Peer Support Staff & Peer Support Supervision in the areas of Training, Implementation, Evaluation & Research, Capacity Building, Knowledge Brokerage and Quality Improvement. We focus in 7 areas of critical reflection; Person Directed Services; Developing a New Role in a System, Emergence, Governance, Service Integrity, Communities of Practice and the “Marrying” of all these areas. The Centre continues to ensure people with lived experience and families are the voice for change, and that values based peer support is the bench mark to continue to champion social and systems change.
http://eenet.ca/resource/centr...ssissauga-and-halton
Why did we need a literature review and the resulting EENet Evidence Brief?
The context with which we applied for this was;
“We will use this information to inform our training material to be inclusive and foundational in regards to peer work. We are already asked from other sectors to support trainings- this will help to validate that it is applicable regardless of experience. It may help to adjust/validate the validated research tool we have been creating for two years with the help of Excellence Through Quality Improvement Projects (E-QIP) measuring the integrity, quality and impact of peer work. We will also be working with our Mississauga Halton LHIN to see how it may help us to create a bridge in our LHIN around offering peer work across healthcare. We will use it as awareness raising through knowledge brokerage with our conference presentations, newsletters and website. All of this will also contribute to person directed-people first care- helping to reduce silos and assist the system towards flexibility and bridging during the fluctuations and complexities of people's wellness at all ages and stages. System transformation.
Luckily our request was accepted and Rebecca and a CAMH librarian helped us to guide the lit review with this question.
“What are the core elements of successful peer support programs?”.
Huge thank you again to EENet who are an amazing resource to the system!
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