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46 CEU’s – 46 Contact Hours over multiple days/nights
The Integrated Behavioral Health Peer Recovery Specialist Training is the core training to begin your path to becoming a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist in the State of Rhode Island. It was designed by BRSS TACS and leaders in the Rhode Island recovery network. This model is designed to provide an up-to-date approach to assist those in recovery from substance use disorder and mental health challenges. This 46-hour training provides you with the necessary educational hours to continue your path to becoming certified. We cover all of the domains required by the Rhode Island Certification board. Right now all classes are being done in an online protocol.
12 CEUs – 12 Contact Hours over 2 days
Anchor Recovery Training Academy is dedicated to training allies and individuals with lived experience in the various aspects of the worldwide recovery movement. Peer Recovery Specialists (versed in both substance use disorder and mental health challenges) face life and death situations on a daily basis. Our mission is to provide these peer specialists with all the applicable training and workshops to perform their jobs professionally and safely. Where previously you would find peer recovery specialists in recovery community centers, we are now seeing a greater need for skilled peers to work in other professional settings such as hospitals, treatment facilities, police stations, and court systems. In response to this demand, we utilize the highly-acclaimed CCAR Recovery and Professionalism Training for coaches looking to expand the depth of their professionalism.
The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP®) is a personalized wellness and recovery system born out of and rooted in the principle of self-determination. WRAP® is a wellness and recovery approach that helps people to
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12 CEUs – 12 Contact Hours over 2 days
Anchor Recovery Training Academy looks to provide further instructions to those individuals who are supervising or will be supervising Peer Recovery Specialists. Peer Recovery Specialists are used in a variety of settings and thus their supervisors must be able to understand the very nature of what a Peer Recovery Specialist faces on a day to-to-day basis. This training is designed to bring people who supervise Peer Recovery Specialists together from the recovery centers to hospitals to outreach, to clinical settings. Through this training Supervisors will learn about types of supervision, handling triggers and reoccurrences, creating a positive work culture, Strengths-Based Supervision, and more.
The Youth Peer Recovery Specialist training is designed as a next step training for people who have already completed a State Integrated Peer Recovery Specialist training, and now wish to specialize by working with people between the ages of 13 and 21. This training is 30 hours and has a rigorous 2 step, apprenticeship program.
16 Contact Hours over 2 Days
This peer-led program promotes self-management to create and sustain new health behavior. The WHAM program offers peer services providers the materials, tools, and ongoing technical assistance to implement WHAM at your organization. WHAM facilitators are linked to a national listserv to foster ongoing peer support, share tips and tools for success, and provide new resources for peer services and integrated health.
