peer support

Peer Staff Supervision Training hosted by Centre For Innovation in Peer Support

INTERACTIVE ONLINE TRAINING
A 6 hour Training split into 3 sessions!
May 21, 22, 23, 2019 from 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm ET

Yup. Me. And 7 other provincial peer support & lived experience (patient)/family (caregiver) advisers/advocates on Monday April 8th 2019.  It was very exciting to have a full 90 minutes with Hon.

Supervising Peer Workers: A Toolkit for Implementing and Supporting Successful Peer Staff Roles in Mainstream Mental Health and Substance
Use/Addiction Organizations

Background

Unison Health and Community Services and The Mood Disorders Association of Ontario will be working together to launch WRAP at the Jane Street Hub.

 WRAP stands for Wellness Recovery Action Plan.

Development of Community of Practice (CoP) for Peer Support Research and Evaluation in Canada being led by The Centre for Innovation in Peer Support (embedded in Support & Housing-Halton) and Simon Coulombe (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Robyn Priest (Robyn Priest Live Your Truth)

Another exciting training opportunity being offered by the Centre for Innovation in Peer Support and Robyn Priest Live Your Truth.  

INTERACTIVE ONLINE TRAINING
A 6 hour Training split into two 3 hour sessions!
February 27 & 28 2019 from 12 noon until 3 pm ET

OPDI is planning a training program in Toronto for March 18 – 22, 2019.  If interested, please email opdi@opdi.org.
 
Full details will be posted on our website. The link is https://www.opdi.org/news-events/events/training/opdi-peer-support-core-essentials-training-program-toronto. Deadline for registration is March 1st, 2019.
 

We would like to invite staff from your agency to attend a free half day seminar on:

SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT

At: Community Outreach Services,

      Toronto East Health Network (previously Toronto East General Hospital)

      671 Danforth Ave. (east of Pape on South side)

On: Friday January 25th, 2019      9:10am – 12pm

Join the Ontario Housing First Regional Network Community of Interest (OHFRN-CoI)'s second annual Housing First Forum!

Click here for event flyer and here to register. 

I am involved in a process to expand capacity to authentically "meet people where they are at".  It originally started with attempting to build capacity for understanding and bridging substance use, harm reduction, housing first philosophy.