Hello! Thanks for posting this Howie. As one of the Directors for the Centre for Innovation in Peer Support I am very excited and proud of this EENet Promising Practice feature.
I was slightly delayed in responding to this post because my "work wife" Christina (the other Director for the Centre) and myself were in Calgary at the Peer Support Canada conference (May 6-May 8). It was amazing! There are so many pockets of excellence happening in peer support. I believe there was 400 people there.
We were very honoured to be involved in facilitating and presenting. On Sunday evening I helped to co-facilitate a peer support research Community of Practice (COP) and my "work wife" co-facilitated a peer support mentoring COP. On the Tuesday we presented a 90 minute workshop on the Centre called: Promising Practice- Centre for Innovation in Peer Support. We were amazed that we had over 90 people that attended our workshop. AND GUESS WHAT WE GAVE TO ALL ATTENDEES? Yup...they all received a coloured copy of the 8 page EENet Promising Practice!!! We even structured the whole presentation around that. And it was really well received! Later in the day on Tuesday we also presented our two posters. The first one was: Development of Research Tool- Integrity, Quality and Impact of Peer Support and the second one was: Governance Relationship Structure-Centre for Innovation in Peer Support.
I will post the posters and some pictures soon and link back to this post...BUT...here are a couple of pictures of the two Directors of the Centre (Christina and Betty-Lou) at the Peer Support Canada conference in Calgary.... As you can see we take our jobs very seriously!!!
