Peer Academy is PRN’s 40-hour NC approved curricula to train future Peer Support Specialists and prepare them to understand and operate in their role with authenticity to the history of the C/S/X movement and values related to mutuality. Elective classes are offered through Peer Academy as well for continuing education.

With much focus on the role of trauma in emotional distress and labels of mental illness and substance use challenges, service providers and systems are challenged to create organizational cultures, environments, services, processes and procedures that recognize the impact of trauma, foster resilience and resist unintentional re-traumatization of people supported. As a trauma-informed organization that also spent 2 years immersed in trauma informed organizational change, PRN’s CEO offers training, TA and support to cohorts of executive leaders and managers considering trauma-informed organizational change.

Understanding recovery practices, principles, research, tools and the history of the recovery movement is critical to fostering recovery in practice. Recovery University uses a combination of didactic and experiential content for the development of recovery practices for individual practitioners or teams.

When offered with fidelity, IPS demonstrates the highest rates of competitive employment. PRN started NC’s first technical assistance centers for IPS SE and operates a high fidelity IPS team. Whether you are interested in learning about the model and what makes it unique or want your team trained in IPS, we’re here to support your organization to embrace competitive employment as among the most effective paths to recovery!

Ideally, programs that employ Peer Support Specialists are supervised by peer supervisors. However, many programs utilize non-peer supervisors with little exposure to the role/scope/competencies of authentic peer support, integrating PSS into the workforce, supervising the roles within their scope of practice, and how to interview, employ and retain and high quality PSS team. Through PRN’s 16 years of experience operating programs staffed by Peer Support Specialists, our team has a lot of “lessons learned” and have translated that into trainings, learning collaboratives and technical assistance for supervisors, teams and/or organizations.

• Is your agency “ready” to effectively offer peer support?
• Are you offering peer support but not sure if you’re doing it well? Let us know how we can help!

In partnership with UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, we offer a 3 day virtual training to meet the NC requirement for CST. The training includes a Recovery foundation, principles of Housing First and supportive housing, tenancy support, an overview of subsidies and the use of various tools to support people to find, choose, get, and keep a home after experiencing homelessness.

For more information, contact Cherene Caraco: ccaraco@promiseresourcenetwork.org.