COE Peer Discipline - JHF

January 14, 2026

Members of the care team will learn about the background and development of the peer role in recovery care and the Pennsylvania COE model, with an emphasis on how recovery-management strategies use clinical and community approaches to build recovery capital across individual, family, and community spheres. Participants will also gain tactical information on how to integrate and support a peer orientation as part of COE interdisciplinary teams.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Session framing: The Peer Discipline as a Vital Element of the COE Interdisciplinary Team Structure.
  3. Historical overview
    1. Moving beyond acute-care models
    2. Challenges of acute care
    3. Shift to recovery management and ROSC.
  4. COE model primer
    1. Hub-and-spoke structure
    2. Whole-person care
    3. Team-based care
    4. Role of peers
    5. Key model features
  5. Clinical continuity & navigation from first contact through community
  6. Peer recovery support services
    1. Family & social network engagement
    2. Integrated health & wellness.
  7. Recovery capital development
    1. Measurement & outcomes
    2. Community partnership
    3. Systems integration.
  8. Team practices
    1. Recovery-oriented values
    2. Collaborative care
    3. Integrating peer supports
    4. Inclusion
    5. Mutual staff support & accountability.
  9. Team growth
    1. Supervision
    2. Training
    3. Trauma/inequity lens
    4. Strengths-based approaches
  10. Follow-up/Q&A.

Target Audience

  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Social Worker

Learning Objectives

  • Consider the innovation of peers as part of the Pennsylvania COE model to support recovery through community-based care management teams.
  • Learn how recovery-management strategies use clinical and community approaches to build recovery capital across individual, family, and community spheres.
  • Explore methods to support a peer orientation as part of COE interdisciplinary teams.
 

 

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
01/14/2026
Course expires: 
02/14/2026
Event starts: 
01/14/2026 - 12:00pm EST
Event ends: 
01/14/2026 - 1:30pm EST
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Members of the care team will learn about the background and development of the peer role in recovery care and the Pennsylvania COE model, with an emphasis on how recovery-management strategies use clinical and community approaches to build recovery capital across individual, family, and community spheres. Participants will also gain tactical information on how to integrate and support a peer orientation as part of COE interdisciplinary teams.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Session framing: The Peer Discipline as a Vital Element of the COE Interdisciplinary Team Structure.
  3. Historical overview
    1. Moving beyond acute-care models
    2. Challenges of acute care
    3. Shift to recovery management and ROSC.
  4. COE model primer
    1. Hub-and-spoke structure
    2. Whole-person care
    3. Team-based care
    4. Role of peers
    5. Key model features
  5. Clinical continuity & navigation from first contact through community
  6. Peer recovery support services
    1. Family & social network engagement
    2. Integrated health & wellness.
  7. Recovery capital development
    1. Measurement & outcomes
    2. Community partnership
    3. Systems integration.
  8. Team practices
    1. Recovery-oriented values
    2. Collaborative care
    3. Integrating peer supports
    4. Inclusion
    5. Mutual staff support & accountability.
  9. Team growth
    1. Supervision
    2. Training
    3. Trauma/inequity lens
    4. Strengths-based approaches
  10. Follow-up/Q&A.

 

Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Bill Stauffer LSW, PMAC, PECS

 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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