NYAPRS Note: The links below offer videos, tip sheets, and guidelines for helping to integrate peer support staff into conventional health settings. The first deals with mitigating potentially negative attitudes faced by peer staff, and the second discusses the way to best utilize the value of peer support in an established treatment team. See the links for more information.

 

Resources for Integrated Care

MMCO/ Lewin/ IHI for Medicare-Medicaid Achievement

 

Reducing Negative Attitudes Faced By Peer Support Staff

Peer support staff are individuals in recovery from a mental illness and/or substance use disorder who have leveraged their lived experience to assist others in recovery.  One challenge peer support staff may face on the job is a lack of acceptance and underlying stigma from their colleagues.  This video and accompanying tip sheet provides guidance for how to reduce these negative attitudes and effectively integrate peer support staff into your organization.

https://www.resourcesforintegratedcare.com/peer-support/stigma

 

Leveraging The Lived Experience Of Peer Support Staff

Peer support staff are individuals in recovery from a mental illness and/or substance use disorder who with training, use their lived experience to assist others in recovery. One of the key steps to successfully integrate peer support staff into behavioral health organizations is determining how to leverage peers’ unique lived experience when defining their role in the organization. Effectively leveraging peer support staff’s lived experiences will ensure that they add value to the organization, complement the services currently being offered, and interface with the existing staff responsibilities. This video and corresponding fact sheet describes success stories of peer support staff and how organizations can use peer support staff to improve care delivery.

https://www.resourcesforintegratedcare.com/peer-support/leveraging