Certified Peer Counselors must document their work, but that documentation must be done in a way that is consistent with their unique role. This workshop helps peer support workers understand requirements of Medicaid and the Washington Administrative Codes, focusing on the type of documentations most often required by CPCs. Expect a simple but thorough method, with lots of practice. For more information or to register, please CLICK HERE.

Recovery is Culturally-Based! Recovery is Culturally-Based! is a Diversity Focus training that strives to reinforce diversity, inclusion, and engagement in Peer Support work in order to build and maintain a diverse workforce, foster and develop an inclusive workplace, and promote inclusive diversity to deliver the best services to our Peers. Diversity Focus training develops cultural awareness and sensitivity to others in a multicultural work environment. This Diversity Focus training includes activities and ideas that help ensure we foster an atmosphere...

The course is only open to WA state Certified Peer Counselors.  The WRAP® Refresher is a interactive course co-facilitated by the Copeland Center Advanced Level Facilitators to sharpen and expand facilitation skills to further engage groups in the Wellness Recovery Action Planning. Through attendance in this course WRAP Facilitators will: 1.Recognize expanded options on how to give effective group introductions. 2.Identify additional knowledge areas, values and ethics of WRAP. 3.Apply at least one new skill to sharpen and expand group facilitation...

Co-occurring Disorders Training for Peer Support Counselors is interactive and provides useful tools for Peer Support Counselors working with people who experience co-occurring disorders – the coexistence of both a mental health and a substance use disorder. It will further define co-occurring disorders, introduce study results, the Stages of Change, relapse prevention, and cover the SAMHSA perspective. In a classroom setting, peer counselors will learn how to positively work with people who experience co-occurring disorders.

Ethics & Boundaries in Peer Support  is a dynamic, interactive workshop designed for Peer Support Counselors in any role. The content is largely based on the International Association of Peer Specialists document, National Ethical Guidelines and Practice Standards. Participants will come away with a clear understanding of the ethics, guidelines and boundaries that are essential to their profession. Please note, lunch will not be provided.

Welcome to the 30th annual Washington Behavioral Healthcare Conference (WBHC), Cultivating Community Solutions. The focus on community could not be more timely as our state considers ambitious proposals to resolve crises and lawsuits surrounding the state hospitals, involuntary treatment capacity, and the criminal justice system. As community behavioral health providers and people living with behavioral health challenges, we know that whenever possible, community-based treatment works best, costs less, and supports recovery. When we gather in June, we’ll hear about earlier access...

The Trauma-Informed Peer Support Workshop explores the elements of safety, transparency, reciprocal and collaborative relationships, cultural considerations and personal exploration to find the meaning each of us attach to our experiences of trauma and loss. It explains how the peer relationship is key to recovery from trauma and challenges in each of us to discover our own Next Steps. The training is interactive, engaging and a critical tool for peer support specialists. It Is based on real peers own lived experience of...

Spend five days learning to become a WRAP Facilitator.** This course is designed to help you become a powerful change agent as a WRAP Facilitator. You will gain a deeper understanding of the recovery process and learn to: • work with people who have mental health challenges to discover the strengths they have and can use to enhance their recovery; • effectively share the underlying concepts necessary to recovery – hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support; • work with...

Ethics & Boundaries in Peer Support  is a dynamic, interactive workshop designed for Peer Support Counselors in any role. The content is largely based on the International Association of Peer Specialists document, National Ethical Guidelines and Practice Standards. Participants will come away with a clear understanding of the ethics, guidelines and boundaries that are essential to their profession. Please note, lunch will not be provided.

Call for Presentations NOW OPEN HFPC 2020 “Housing First – What’s Second? Empowerment, Health & Recovery!” Pre-Conference: March 16, 2020 Conference: March 17 – 19, 2020 The Westin Seattle   |    Seattle, WA Join us in presenting cutting-edge content at the fifth biennial Housing First Partners Conference! This three-day conference (and pre-conference institutes) features workshops, plenaries, and inspiring discussions with providers, researchers, policy makers and those with lived experience, all of whom are passionately engaged in ending homelessness. Our goal is...