Peers: An Essential Component to the Behavioral Health Workforce

• By: Barbara Faron Federation of Organizations
• July 1st, 2019
• advocacy, behavioral health workforce, lived experience, mental health recovery, peer support, person-centered care, substance use disorders, vocational opportunities
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What makes a well-rounded behavioral health workforce who can deliver innovative, person-centered services that can affect change for the better? For Federation, the answer is Peer Specialists. Peers have become an integral part of the behavioral health workforce and Federation has been a pioneer...

Adding Recovery Professionals to the Continuum of Care

• By: Ruth Riddick The Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State (ASAP)
• July 1st, 2019
• addiction recovery, building recovery capital, continuum of care, life skills, peer support, recovery, recovery coaching, substance use disorder
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What is the purpose of our work, of all the prevention, intervention and therapy, all that merciful medical model and multi-volume DSM? The treatment plans? Aftercare? All this helping apparatus – what’s it for? Now, the agreed response is that “recovery” is our mutual goal irrespective...

Peers in the Workforce: Reversing Misconceptions and Succeeding

• By: Kerry Andrea William Shaneefa Elfreda Joseph Services for the UnderServed (S:US)
• July 1st, 2019
• behavioral health needs, employment stability, lived experience, peer support, recovery and wellness, supportive services, workforce inclusion, workplace stigma
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This article is part of a quarterly series giving voice to the perspectives of individuals with lived experiences as they share their opinions on a particular topic. The authors of this column facilitated a focus group of their peers to inform this writing. The authors are served by Services for...

The Impact of Youth Peer Advocates: An Early Look at Findings

• By: Darren Cosgrove, LMSW University at Albany School of Social Welfare Thomas M. LaPorte, PhD Margaret Gullick, PhD Center for Human Services Research, University at Albany
• July 1st, 2019
• care coordination, family engagement, lived experience, peer support, recovery-oriented services, workforce training, youth mental health, Youth Peer Advocates
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The incorporation of peer support in the treatment process for individuals experiencing mental health challenges has been increasing over recent decades (Campbell, 2005). Adults with mental health conditions have pursued roles as facilitators in recovery-based work (Mead, Hilton & Curtis,...

BHN Summer 2019 Issue

• July 1st, 2019
• behavioral health workforce, career pathways, mental health professionals, peer support, professional challenges, training and development, workforce retention, workforce shortage
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