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Peer Support Specialists: A New Perspective in Non-traditional Settings | October 5, 2023

Date of Presentation: December 6, 2023

Type: Past Presentation  Training  

Audience: Clinical  Community  

Program: Ending the Epidemics in Indian Country ECHO Program  

Keywords: #peer support  #Peers  #Recovery  #SUD  

In this presentation, O’Nesha Cochran, a certified peer recovery mentor, shares her story and provides an overview of peer recovery support, how people interested in peer recovery can become certified, and potential barriers to peer support.

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O’Nesha Cochran-Dumas

O’Nesha Cochran Dumas is an Afro-Indigenous member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe with an Associate of Applied Science and Bachelor of Social Work that she obtained after spending 15 years in prison. O’Nesha helped launch the first Queer Resource Center at Portland Community College, was the first Certified Recovery Mentor at Oregon Health and Sciences University on the IMPACT Medical Team, became a Peer Trainer for the Mental Health Addiction and Certification Board of Oregon, and Managed the Diane Wade House, a 38-bed re-entry program for Afrocentric women.

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Date added: August 10, 2023