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Peers for Progress: Ongoing Monitoring, Supervision, and Support (UNC)

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Audience: Clinical

Strategies to monitor peer recovery success, provide ongoing training, and troubleshoot problems.

Date added: 07/24/21

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Peer Support Toolkit (DBHIDS)

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Audience: Clinical

Program: Peer Recovery

This toolkit is designed to support behavioral health treatment agencies with the process of integrating peer providers into their service settings. Tools in this kit are designed to help agencies to recruit, retain, and effectively deploy people in recovery in ...

Date added: 07/24/21

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Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Self-assessment for Supervisors (SAMHSA)

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Audience: Clinical

This self-assessment is designed to help you reflect on your own supervision practice and identify areas you would like to develop to become a more effective supervisor of peer workers.

Date added: 07/24/21

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Supervision of Peer Workers – Slide Deck with Notes (SAMHSA)

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Audience: Clinical

Presentation slides describing the role of peer recovery supervisors, the principles of peer support services, the application of recovery-oriented approaches to the supervision of peer workers, and critical supervision skills.

Date added: 07/24/21

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Peer Specialist Training and Certification Programs: A National Overview 2016 (UT)

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Audience: Clinical

Date added: 07/24/21

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State-by-State Directory of Peer Recovery Coaching Training and Certification Programs (SAMHSA)

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Audience: Clinical

Directory of peer recovery training and certification programs for all states with available programs.

Date added: 07/24/21

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Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale: About Peer Workers (SAMHSA)

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Audience: Clinical

Learn about the role of peer workers and access recovery-related resources about peer supports and services.

Date added: 07/24/21

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What are Peer Recovery Support Services? (SAMHSA)

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Audience: Clinical

This document explains the role of Peer Support Specialists and the potential benefits of peer recovery support services in treating substance use disorders.

Date added: 07/24/21

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Peer Support Toolkit (SPTHB)

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Audience: Clinical

Southern Plains Tribal Health Board developed this toolkit to assist tribal programs in determining how peer specialists can best serve their tribal organizations and communities. The information contained in this document provides an overview about the effectiveness of peer support ...

Date added: 07/24/21

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Wellbriety Movement (WM)

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Audience: Clinical Community

Program: Peer Recovery

The Wellbriety Movement is a grassroots movement that disseminates culturally based principles, values, and teachings to support healthy community development and servant leadership, and to support healing from alcohol, substance use disorders, co-occurring disorders, and intergenerational trauma.

Date added: 07/24/21

	Jason Arion Butler is an enrolled member of the Ute Tribe of Fort Duchesne, Utah and is also part Mojave and Cherokee. He resides in Gibson, Idaho with his wife of 22 years, children, and grandchild who are all enrolled members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. He graduated from Idaho State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and earned his Master of Science in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University. He has spent the past 5+ years employed by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Tribal Health and Human Services Department, where he spent time serving as the Recovery Service Coordinator for the Four Directions Treatment Center, the manager for the Community Health Representative program, and recently accepted the position of Behavioral Health Manager. He strives to incorporate Native culture, traditions, morals, and values into the healthcare services provided to Native communities, implementing these practices into his work with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and advocating for the reconstruction of healthcare practices nationally. Today he says, “I am loving life and am extremely thankful to have found a career path I love.

	Carrie Sampson-Samuels is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation located in Eastern Oregon. Carrie has an early background in nursing providing patient care in long term and clinical care settings. Carrie then furthered her education in community health and health studies at Portland State University, later advancing her education in healthcare management at Oregon Health and Sciences University while serving in leadership and executive management for a Tribal health organization as the Community Health Director. Carrie has served Tribes from Oregon to Montana and the Treaty 7 Blackfoot Confederacy in Southern Alberta. As the Community Health Aide Project Director for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Carrie has provided leadership, advocacy and project management for expansion for the Behavioral Health Aide and Community Health Aide Program under the umbrella and direction of the Tribal Community Health Provider Project. This work has led to the expansion of Tribal Community Health Providers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Carrie is responsible for leading partnerships with the education institutions, key Tribal partner sites, contract experts and advisory workgroups. This includes development of education infrastructure, education curriculum, recruitment strategies, tools for integration of providers into tribal health organizations, and working with state partners to develop policy and infrastructure for provider reimbursement. Carrie manages and writes multiple grants that support all aspects of this work and provides technical assistance support to the Portland Area CHAP Certification Board. Carrie is the proud mother of 4 daughters and resides on a small ranch on her Tribal homelands.

	Dr. Liu is a generalist OB/GYN at Gallup Indian Medical Center. In addition to her medical degree, she holds a PhD in Health Policy. Among other publications, she served as the chief editor for the 2019 Oxford University Press book: “50 Studies Every Obstetrician and Gynecologist Should Know.” She has formal training in Quality Improvement processes through the Partners Clinical Process Improvement Leadership Program (CPIP), which she utilized to implement emergency contraception at Massachusetts General Hospital. During her six years at Gallup Indian Medical Center she has primary responsibility for preparing and reporting of metrics related to the delivery of obstetric care, and serves on the Continuing Medical Education committee.

	Dr. Hoover is from Chicago, where he grew up and went to medical school, at Rush University, on Chicago’s diverse West Side. He was trained in Urology at Boston Medical Center in Boston’s beautiful South End neighborhood. Dr. Hoover went on to pursue fellowship training in voiding dysfunction and laser prostate surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Hoover is a Board-Certified Urologist, by the American Board of Urology, having achieved this honor in 2018. Dr. Hoover has several peer-reviewed publications, including research studies and medical illustrations. His family is happy to call Gallup home since the end of 2017. In their free time they like to explore New Mexico’s wilderness and go camping. Now that their two girls are growing up, it’s also imperative that we catch Pokemon wherever we go.Dr. Hoover is the only Urologist in McKinley County, New Mexico, and in any of the surrounding counties– it’s just him between Albuquerque and Flagstaff. He’s happy to continue seeing established patients, and is accepting new patients from the entire region. Dr. Hoover believes in communication, candor, and compassion as essential tenets of patient care. Dr. Hoover is an expert in general Urology, male and female voiding dysfunction, kidney stones and kidney stone surgery, BPH and laser prostate surgery, erectile dysfunction, vasectomy, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, testicular cancer. Many of the procedures he do as a Urologist are done in the office including: cystoscopy, vasectomy, urodynamics, treatment foroveractive bladder, and many others. Please call/text or email and let him and his staff know how they can help you.

	Eric Wortmann, MD is the former Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility. Besides patient care, Eric has a deep passion for mentoring aspiring physicians and health care providers. He was the Education Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle as well as Adjunct Faculty for the US Army teaching Special Forces Medics. He has been a visiting professor of Emergency Medicine in Haiti and has worked in the Dominican Republic since 1989. Eric has a long-time passion as a mid and long-distance running coach. He has lived on Kauai for 30 years. Currently he divides his time between Northern Italy and Hawaii. Recently he was accepted into Doctors without Borders USA and is awaiting his first assignment.

	Corey Detlefs, MD, FACS, is the Trauma Outreach Director and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix