COE Understanding and Strengthening Peer Competencies

October 9, 2024

Members of the healthcare team will develop an understanding of the history of peer services in SUD care and what makes these roles unique, and will learn about core competencies and the application of knowledge, skills, and values and the ethical provision of peer support services.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction – We are PRO A
  2. Learning objectives
  3. Peer Workers and Recovery Movement History
    1. Mutual Support
    2. Origins of PRSS
    3. Peers and ROSC
    4. The Growth of Peer Services
    5. Overview of peer roles
    6. Peer recovery support
    7. Discussion question
  4. Peers and Peer Recovery Support Services
    1. SAMHSA’s: what are PBRSS
    2. Defining PRSS
    3. Fundamentals of Recovery
    4. Recovery is..
    5. The importance of Peer Supports
    6. Common indicators of quality
    7. Support autonomous functioning
    8. Four models of PRSS
    9. Core Values of PRSS
    10. Core Ethical values for peer services
    11. Types of PRSS
  5. SUD Peers
    1. Role of peer workers
    2. Sharing lived experience
    3. Steps for integrating many pathways into peer programs
    4. Role modeling recovery
    5. Strength based support
    6. Recovery capital
    7. Recovery planning
    8. Autonomous functioning
    9. Discussion question
  6. Ethical Provision of Peer Recovery Services
    1. Peers
    2. Role Clarification
    3. Key areas of risk
    4. How peers differ from addiction counselors
    5. Peers vs 12-step sponsor
    6. Boundaries and ethical practice
    7. Discussion Question
  7. Summary

 

Target Audience

  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Social Worker

Learning Objectives

Describe the need for service programs to understand the history of peer services in SUD care capacities and how these formal roles differ from self-help support and clinical care.

Explain peer core competencies, knowledge, skills and values within their roles and functions in SUD programs

Discuss the importance of ethical provision of peer support services from self-care to service integrity

Additional Information

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File Audience Disclosure slides (1.25).pptx50.71 KB
File Objectives_Agenda_References.docx47.2 KB
PDF icon Understanding and Strengthening Peer Competencies_v1.pdf4.05 MB
PDF icon 001 SAMHSA TIP 64 Incorporating Peer Suport into SUD Services.pdf3.61 MB
PDF icon 002 ManyPathstoRecovery_formatted01_04182014.pdf170.38 KB
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: 
10/09/2024
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
Event starts: 
10/09/2024 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
10/09/2024 - 1:30pm EDT
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Members of the healthcare team will develop an understanding of the history of peer services in SUD care and what makes these roles unique, and will learn about core competencies and the application of knowledge, skills, and values and the ethical provision of peer support services.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction – We are PRO A
  2. Learning objectives
  3. Peer Workers and Recovery Movement History
    1. Mutual Support
    2. Origins of PRSS
    3. Peers and ROSC
    4. The Growth of Peer Services
    5. Overview of peer roles
    6. Peer recovery support
    7. Discussion question
  4. Peers and Peer Recovery Support Services
    1. SAMHSA’s: what are PBRSS
    2. Defining PRSS
    3. Fundamentals of Recovery
    4. Recovery is..
    5. The importance of Peer Supports
    6. Common indicators of quality
    7. Support autonomous functioning
    8. Four models of PRSS
    9. Core Values of PRSS
    10. Core Ethical values for peer services
    11. Types of PRSS
  5. SUD Peers
    1. Role of peer workers
    2. Sharing lived experience
    3. Steps for integrating many pathways into peer programs
    4. Role modeling recovery
    5. Strength based support
    6. Recovery capital
    7. Recovery planning
    8. Autonomous functioning
    9. Discussion question
  6. Ethical Provision of Peer Recovery Services
    1. Peers
    2. Role Clarification
    3. Key areas of risk
    4. How peers differ from addiction counselors
    5. Peers vs 12-step sponsor
    6. Boundaries and ethical practice
    7. Discussion Question
  7. Summary
Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

William Stauffer (PRO-A)

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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