This training, entitled Consumers with Lived Experience: Critical Partners in the Mental Health System of Care, explores the trends, approaches, and opportunities in workforce development involving hiring consumers of mental health services as Peer Specialists or Consumer Supporters. While consumers in recovery can experience difficulty in finding employment, their unique authentic experience makes them a largely untapped asset that providers of mental health services can, and should, take advantage of.

This training is an introductory discussion about common terminology, employment law, and other factors that are critical in setting the stage for a successful consumer representative employment program. It is formatted as a narrated slide show that can be paused, re-viewed or viewed in multiple sittings any time, 24/7. Please check it out here! 

The CAFÉ TA Center is a SAMHSA funded national technical assistance center for substance abuse and mental health. Visit us online at www.cafetacenter.net!

Loneliness is an old and ongoing human condition.

Having friends, supporters, and emotional connections with others in our lives is vitally important.  We know that being lovingly supported and supporting others are powerful contributors to our social, psychological, spiritual, and even physical wellbeing.  Such support is most assuredly a powerful anti-depressant.  It gives us the motivation and courage to go on in even the hardest of times.  It enriches our lives, making every experience feel better.  It takes time and support to create the changes in your life that will improve your circumstances and make you feel better about yourself and your life.

Join us as we explore how to address issues related to loneliness in your life.

Monday’s

1:00 – 3:00 PM

At the Learning and Recovery Center

174 Mere Point Road

For more information please call Paula at 373-4275

http://www.takepart.com/lists/people-and-stories-mental-illness/53746

http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServerpagename=empower_ShareYourStory  

https://www.facingus.org

http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/reallives/page.cfm/share-story

http://www.whatadifference.samhsa.gov/listen.aspnav=nav03&content=3_0_listen

http://www.mirecovery.org/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

http://www.power2u.org/articles/recovery/recovery_stories/stories.html

http://www.procovery.com/

http://www.promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/publications/mystory/

http://www.storiesthatheal.samhsa.gov/index.asp