This presentation slide set including trainer notes details the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s framework for supervising peer support services.
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Family, Parent, and Caregiver Peer Support in Behavioral Health – Spanish Language Version
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This 2-page Spanish language resource provides an overview of peer specialist services for families, parents, and caregivers supporting children and youth receiving mental health or substance use disorder services.
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Family, Parent, and Caregiver Peer Support in Behavioral Health
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This 2-pager provides an overview of peer specialist services for families, parents, and caregivers supporting children and youth receiving mental health or substance use disorder services.
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Core Competencies for Peer Workers in Behavioral Health Services
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This 7 page document describes the core competencies for peer workers in behavioral health services. It provides background information on peer services and recovery and defines 12 core competencies for peer support specialists:
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Peer Support Toolkit
Source: Southern Plains Tribal Health Board
The online toolkit for creating peer support programs for indigenous communities from the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board provides an overview of peer specialist services and describes the core roles and responsibilities peer specialists play in supporting treatment and recovery from substance use disorders in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities.
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Peers
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration’s (SAMHSA) web page contains information about peer support services. Included are details about what role peer support providers play in substance use disorder and mental health treatment and recovery services as well as links to additional SAMHSA peer support resources.
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Spirit of Harm Reduction: A Toolkit for Communities of Faith Facing Overdose
Source: National Harm Reduction Coalition
The Faith in Harm Reduction online toolkit is a national collection of faith and community leaders who work together to address stigma against people who use drugs and advance liberation, health, and wholeness for communities impacted by overdose, trauma, stigma of substance use, and radicalized drug policy.
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Medicaid’s Role in Improving Substance Use Disorder Treatment in the US
Source: Milbank Memorial Fund
This 5-page overview examines the role Medicaid plays in improving access and quality of substance use disorder treatment (SUD). The report describes 3 roles Medicaid plays in the SUD treatment field: payer and contractor; collaborator, evaluator, and educator; and regulator, monitor and enforcer.
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Recovery Works: 3.0 Creating a Recovery Friendly Workplace Toolkit
Source: Connecticut Department of Labor, Connecticut Department of Public Health, & the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
The Connecticut Recovery Friendly Workplace (RFW) toolkit assists in creating a recovery friendly workplace. Resources in the toolkit include assessments of current practices, principles of a RFW, guidance for implementing a RFW policy including sample policies and communications documents, and links to additional resources such as training opportunities.
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Strategies for Helping Individuals Impacted by Opioid Use Disorder: A Toolkit for Ohio’s Public Workforce System
Source: Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services
This 101 page toolkit from Ohio’s Department of Jobs and Family Services supports business impacted by opioid use disorder (OUD).