Peer Support Workforce Shortages Anticipated: What You Can Do

• By: Rita Cronise Peer Support Services Technical Assistance Center (PeerTAC)
• January 22nd, 2024
• advocacy, lived experience, mental health settings, outpatient programs, peer support providers, peer support workforce, policymakers, support, Winter 2024 Issue
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Imagine this: You are the manager in a behavioral health agency that has decided to hire peer support providers in your workforce. This position can give the agency a boost in revenue, additional help in needed areas with personnel shortages, and hope and practical help to service participants. You...

Enhanced CRPA and CHW Training and Workforce Transformation

• By: Victoria Njoku-Anokam, MPH William D. Myhre, MPA Staten Island Performing Provider System (SI PPS)
• July 1st, 2019
• behavioral health integration, community health workers, Medicaid services, peer support workforce, recovery peer advocates, social determinants of health, substance use disorder recovery, workforce development
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The Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) and Community Health Worker (CHW) are two emerging workforce roles in health care. A CRPA is a person who uses lived experience with substance use disorder (SUD) and who have been certified to provide peer support services including non-clinical coaching,...