THE COURSE
What peer supporters learn
Foundations
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Legal issues, confidentiality, liability and HIPAA
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Colorado law on peer support conversations
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Boundaries
Helping Skills
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Egan's Helping Model
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Building empathy, attending skills and active listening
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Probing, paraphrasing and mirroring, summarizing
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Beliefs and values
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Strategies, action plans and identifying issues
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Intervention skills
Recognizing what peers carry
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Critical incident stress, post-traumatic stress and acute stress
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Anxiety and panic attacks, depression and insomnia
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Suicidal ideation and behaviors
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Eating disorders
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Grief and loss
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Anger, addictions, alcohol and prescription drugs
Caring for the Supporter
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Resilience skills and self-care
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Relaxation and breathing
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Stress and stress management
AFTER THE COURSE
Ongoing support for your peer team
Peer Supporter Meetings
A one-hour supervision meeting where peer supporters talk through the past month, gain insight, decompress as a group and ask questions.
Quarterly Peer Supporter Training
A two-hour session that builds advanced skills and tools so peer supporters keep growing.
ALSO AVAILABLE
More training for departments
ASIST
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training.
Mental Health
Recognizing and responding to signs of mental health and substance use challenges.
Resilience Training
Workshops on building resilience, delivered with One Tree Learning Institute.
Prepare/Enrich Facilitator training
Preparing facilitators to support couples and relationships.
Bring Peer Support Training to your department
Tell us about your team and we'll follow up with dates and details. Prefer to talk? Call 719.822.3387.
Please don't include personal health details in this form. We'll talk privately when we reach you.
Reaching out is the first step.
Call 719.822.3387 or email contact@sc4i.org. No cost. No referral form. No chain of command.