Year: 2020
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7 tips for taking your training online
Learned a lot from taking the SHARE! Advanced Peer Specialist training online! Here are seven tips for online training: Pare your material down to the essentials. Learning online is exhausting in itself. People are being bombarded with information—so structure the material thoughtfully and help...
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Creating welcoming mental health work environments
Mark Salzer of Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion, wrote: If non-peer support professionals (e.g., psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists) with mental illnesses are not accepted in the behavioral health workforce then peer specialists will not be either. I am bothered by...
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Speaking out against racism
"Speaking out against racism The events resulting in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis are a shocking reminder of the long history of mistreatment of African Americans, often at the hands of police, in the United States. The continuing pattern of unlawful deaths of black men and women in police...
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Learning, Healing & Grieving at the SHARE! Festival of Recovery Marathon
I wasn’t sure what to expect at the Festival of Recovery Marathon May 22-24, 2020. I had never been to a meeting marathon online-- Who would come? How would it work? Two words to describe it, for me, were inspired and customized. Some folks attended from where we are located, in Los Angeles. Others came...
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#GivingTuesdayNow
Please support SHARE!'s essential services: 190 people housed in 2020, 171 online support groups. Credit/debit cards, Paypal accepted. $2,500 gets one person off the street today forever $1,000 opens a new house to house 8 to 10 people $500 pays the 1st months rent for one homeless...
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Mental health journal reports on SHARE! project
SHARE! Supervision of the Peer Workforce project was written up in American Psychiatric Services. Capacity-Building in the Peer Workforce: A Systems-Level Approach To learn more, view presentations from the Supervision of Peer Workforce Conference held online March 25, 2020. Click here to see Conference...
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