Peer Support and Peer Providers Teleconference: Redefining Mental Health Recovery

September 21, 2010

SAMHSA ADS Center Training Teleconference
Peer Support and Peer Providers: Redefining Mental Health Recovery 

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m., Eastern Time (ET)

Peer support is a relationship and dialogue based on connection and trust. When we create this kind of relational environment, we can step back and see things from new angles, creating possibilities that couldn’t have previously existed.

—Shery Mead, Peer Support Consultant

What is unique about peer support services and what can mental health providers, family members, and other stakeholders learn from the success of this approach?  What systems-level and policy changes are need to enhance the culture of healing and recovery in mental health services, based on mutual relationships of learning, safety, and trust? What are the research findings that have shown peer support to be an evidence-based practice that enhances well-being outcomes?

SAMHSA ADS Center invites you to a free training teleconference entitled “Peer Support and Peer Providers: Redefining Mental Health Recovery”. This training teleconference will help current and past recipients of mental health services, U.S. service members and their families, health providers, advocacy organizations, family and peer support leaders, and the general public explore the questions above.

Date and Time

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m., Eastern Time (ET)

Register Today!

To learn more and to register, please
visit the following page: http://promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/teleconferences/default.aspx.
We encourage you to share this invitation with interested friends and colleagues.

Please note: Registration will close
at 5:00 p.m., ET, on September 17, 2010.

Presenters

• Jean Campbell, Ph.D.
  University of Missouri School of Medicine- Columbia

• Steve Harrington, J.D., M.P.A.
  National Association of Peer Specialists

• Shery Mead
  Shery Mead Consulting

Questions?

This training teleconference will include a question-and-answer session. We invite you to submit questions at any time before or during the teleconference. To submit questions before the teleconference, please e-mail promoteacceptance@samhsa.hhs.gov. Speakers will answer as many questions as possible during the question-and-answer session, but we cannot guarantee that your question will be answered during the teleconference. We will provide each presenter’s contact information so that you may contact him or her directly for a response or additional information.

Please note: You may submit anonymous questions. If you provide your name and organization when submitting a question, we may use it during the call.

Training Sponsor

This teleconference is sponsored by SAMHSA ADS Center, a project of the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS). CMHS is a center within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Please explore the SAMHSA ADS Center Web site for more information: http://www.promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov.

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